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Understanding Deleuze

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Understanding Deleuze

Claire Colebrook

Copyright ? Claire Colebrook, 2002

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Foreword

Introducing Deleuze to anyone, whether academic, student, scientist or artist, is tricky. They are either going to feel exhilarated by the new vocabulary and challenge to their current frameworks for thinking or exhausted by them. One of my favourite texts for doing this is Deleuze's short essay on `Mediators' which consists of a series of notes and digressions on a range of different topics, including Cinema, New Caledonia, Literature, Couples, Style, Aids and Global Strategy (Deleuze 1992). I mention this work because it gives an indication of the breadth of Deleuze's thought as a project within Cultural Studies.

In Cultural Studies, we are faced with thinking about the problems of specific political contexts, aesthetics and cultural production, social relations, viral forces and identities beyond the bounds of the narrowly human subject of western capitalism. And we need to work with the most rigorous intellectual engagement available and possible. Among the many characterising features of Cultural Studies are its interdisciplinarity and a poststructuralist vocabulary that has emerged from its critique of, and struggle to disassociate itself from, traditional disciplinary formations. While Foucault, Lacan and Derrida have been the intellectual forces of late twentieth-century poststructuralism, in many ways the twenty-first century is likely to become more Deleuzean. It is already, molecular, nomadic and cinematic in ways that could not be predicted with old habits of thought. And

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