ABSTRACT
I don’t agree that postmodernism and poststructuralism are dead, any more than are Platonism, Cartesianism, phenomenology, pragmatism, Frankfurt School critical theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, logical positivism (supposedly theory-free), the eighteenth century theories of the British empiricists, or the nineteenth century theories of Marx and Freud and Nietzsche. Much of the ‘new’ work in the affective, new material, new empirical, and posthuman turns relies on an ontology of immanence which pervades poststructural thought and its lineage from Spinoza, Neitzsche, Whitehead, Bergson, and Deleuze. It seems that Spinoza (seventeenth century) has been reborn and, happily, we’ve never quite been able to kill off Nietzsche. Deleuze and Guattari’s work, slow to be translated, has gotten its legs in the social sciences and is de rigueur in this ontological turn.
