ABSTRACT

This chapter analyses the elitist interpretation of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, which reduces it to philosophy and depoliticizes it. The revolutionary analysis of Deleuze and Guattari's politics does in fact hinge on the question of the status of political economy and the question of political organization. Brian Massumi proposes a revolutionary interpretation of the oeuvre of Deleuze and Guattari. N. Thoburn has shown more determination than most to provide a revolutionary interpretation of the works of Deleuze and Guattari. Sibertin-Blanc provides another revolutionary interpretation of the oeuvre of Deleuze and Guattari, which is connected to Marxism but not directly to autonomist Marxism. Rodrigo Nunes provides another Marxist and revolutionary interpretation. Isabelle Stengers is an influential contemporary philosopher. She provides another revolutionary interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari, which is connected more loosely to Marxism. Isabelle Stengers is mainly a philosopher of sciences. Finally, the chapter also analyses a series of overtly non-Marxist revolutionary interpretations of Deleuze and Guattari.