A Thousand Plateaus and philosophy

"This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.'A Thousand Plateaus' represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory. Key Features : emphasises the philosophical nature of A Thousand Plateaus, provides detailed coverage of the text as a whole, brings together cutting edge research from some of the leading lights in scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari, an ideal companion to a plateau-by-plateau reading of Deleuze and Guattari's work."--Back cover

Introduction / Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams -- 'A book? what book?' or Deleuze and Guattari on the Rhizome / Miguel de Beistegui -- One or several wolves : the wolf-man's pass-words / Brent Adkins -- Who the earth thinks it is / Ronald Bogue -- Postulates of linguistics / Jeffrey A. Bell -- 587 BC -- AD 70 : on several regimes of signs / Audrey Wasser -- November 28, 1947 : how do you make yourself a body without organs? / John Protevi -- Year zero : faciality / Nathan Widder -- 'What happened next?' : Hjelmslev's Net, Arachne's Web and the figure of the line / Helen Palmer -- Micropolitics and Segmentarity / Eugene W. Holland -- Memories of a Deleuzian : to think is always to follow the witches flight / Simon O'Sullivan -- Of the refrain (the Ritornello) / Emma Ingala -- 1227 A.D. : treatise on nomadology -- the war machine / Paul Patton -- 7000 B.C. : apparatus of capture / Daniel W. Smith -- The smooth and the striated / Henry Somers-Hall -- Concrete rules and abstract machines : form and function in a thousand Plateaus / Ray Brassier.