Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of ‘Becoming-Revolutionary’
This book reconstructs Deleuze and Guattari’s micropolitics toward a philosophy of ‘becoming-revolutionary’. It provides novel ways to comprehend their political philosophy, through a critical engagement with Chantal Mouffe’s theorization of radical democracy, Michael Hardt and Negri’s diagnosis of Empire, Franco Berardi’s analysis of semiocapitalism, the Philippine Party-List System Act, and the ASEAN Integration Project, to name a few. These initiatives aim to examine, expand, and challenge Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy against the backdrop of various present-day predicaments and practices that perpetually allow people to choose their own oppression. Furthermore, the book embarks on an invigorating journey through philosophy, politics, cultural studies, and contemporary events, searching for new modes of thinking and resistance that carry with them the radical potentials of a revolution-to-come. Through the philosophy of becoming-revolutionary, the book endorses the cultivation of new concepts, subjectivities, and relations, capable of subverting advanced capitalism and other kinds of ethical fascism toward a people- and world-to-come.
Raniel S.M. Reyes is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and a Research Fellow at the Research Center for Culture, Arts, and Humanities of the University of Santo Tomas, the Philippines. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy in the same institution, with his dissertation focusing on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophy of becoming-revolutionary. He is one of the Managing Editors of Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, and has published work in journals such as Philosophia, Philippiniana Sacra, and Buddhi. His areas of specialization are Deleuze and Guattari, Nietzsche, critical theory, and socio-political philosophy.
“Raniel Reyes provides a superb overview of the political philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. His well-informed readings of key texts by Deleuze and Guattari retrace the development of their thought from its sources in Deleuze’s philosophy of difference up to their final collaborative text What is Philosophy? In addition, he shows the relevance of their revolutionary micropolitical approach to the contemporary conditions of the Philippines. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the contemporary critique of neoliberal capitalism.”
Paul Patton
Wuhan University, China; Flinders University, Australia
“An excellent volume on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming-revolutionary. Raniel did not merely reproduce Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy as many others do, but also applied their insights to contemporary issues in Southeast Asia with a critical focus on themes of education, empire, and the ASEAN.”
Tony See
University of London – SIM GE Centre, Singapore
“Raniel Reyes’s book invites us to ask whether Deleuze and Guattari provide us with a vocabulary that would awaken a revolutionary impulse in a world that seems overcome by a tired, dystopian sensibility. It is animated by the Deleuzian and Guattarian insight that the work of philosophy necessarily involves the enlivening of a creative conceptual, aesthetic, ethical and political imagination.”
Jean Emily Tan
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
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