fluffy deleuzians

Posted on | August 18, 2004 |

having stumbled upon sandy online and his theory of fluffiness i am posting this chapter proposal to add another perspective on what is ongoing, highly academic yet still interesting quandry: why are so many deleuzians not deleuzian??? in answer to which i always find myself thinking, i’ve heard this before… oh hang on, that was ‘even marx wasn’t a marxist’.

i had been a bit scared to post this previously but given that i’m seasoned for negative feedback today i may as well.

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2 Responses to “fluffy deleuzians”

  1. Mel
    August 19th, 2004 @ 11:09 am

    Hmmmm…. I have been following the fallout (some of it incredible vicious and defensive) from the “fluffy deleuze” idea. My immediate reaction has been that this is a debate I can’t access, as I have never read Deleuze and am somewhat mystified at how, in the last year, he’s come smashing down on unsuspecting academics like some monster tidal wave.

    Like a poor swimmer, my intellect has been focused simply on staying afloat: working out which theorist is ’so hot right now’ (like, two years ago it was Zizek, last year it was Agamben, now it’s Deleuze), which people subscribe to his/her theories and why I should care. For that reason I found your proposal very provocative because it promises to challenge, not the ideas of the theorist per se, which are often taken as always-already ‘true’, but the uses to which the theorist is put.

    Now I will slink back to my own ‘work’, which amounts to banal, theoretically disengaged musings about fashion and pop music. If I had to pick a pet theoretical perspective it would be Foucauldianism, which is deeply unfashionable.

  2. mc gregg
    August 20th, 2004 @ 9:02 am

    Thanks for this Mel. You are hardly struggling to stay afloat with this one, in fact you’ve understood the argument exactly. Now I just have to bring myself to write it… On this topic I think our interests collide: yours for fashion and mine for theory!