Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism

Cheri Carr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at LaGuardia College, New York, USA.Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University, USA.

Sholtz and Carr’s agressive feminist alliance with Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis dares to engage intensively with many issues contemporary feminist scholars wish to confront including sexism and white privilege, the perceptibility and imperceptibility of women as subjects, the turn to materialism, the investments of desire and the restraints of epistemic, political, and sexual normativity, the positing of economic futures, as well as aesthetic, literary, and media transformations. In doing this it problematizes; it seeks out the unconscious cultural and individual resistances embedded in each of these situations and directly confronts the differences that are typically overlooked and which have undermined the creation of original if difficult solutions to feminist critiques. As such, it speaks the work of disruption, interrogation, deterritorialization, transformation, and praxis, always focused on the question of “what works?,” “what deoedipalizes?,” “what connects us to the cosmos?,” difficult questions critical to the task of forming an alliance with schizoanalysis.

• Introduction: Alliances and AlliesJanae Sholtz (Alvernia University, USA) and Cheri Lynne Carr (LaGuardia College, New York, USA)Part I: Re-aligning Methodology Chapter 1: White Analogy, Transcendental Becoming Woman and the Fragilities of Race and GenderClaire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA)Chapter 2: Deleuzian Notion of Becoming Imperceptible and New Postfeminist StrategiesAudrone Žukauskaite (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuania)Chapter 3: Undoing the Subject: Feminist and Schizoanalytic Contributions to Political DesubjectificationErinn Gilson (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY)Part II: Re-thinking Sexuality and SubjectivityChapter 4: Schizoanalyzing Anoedipal AllianceTamsin Lorraine (Swarthmore College, USA)Chapter 5: The Alliance Between Materialist Feminism and Schizoanalysis: Towards a Materialist Theory of Sexed SubjectivityKatja Cicigoj (Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany)Chapter 6: To Have Done with Sexuality: Schizoanalysis and the Problem of Queer-Feminist AllianceNir Kedem (Sapir Academic College, Israel)Chapter 7: Deleuze and TransfeminismHannah Stark (University of Tasmania, Australia) and Timothy Laurie (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)Part III: De-territorializing Feminist PraxesChapter 8: Schizoanalysis and the Deterritorializations of Transnational FeminismJanae SholtzChapter 9: Microrevolutions in Feminist Economics: A Schizoanalytic Response to 'Third Way' Identity ProductionHeidi Samuelson (Independent scholar) Chapter 10: Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as a Symbol for the Posthuman Future in the AnthropoceneAmy Kit Sze Chan (Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong)Chapter 11: Writing Difference: Towards a Becoming MinoritarianChrysanthi Nigianni (Goldsmiths University, London)Part IV: Re-drawing Aesthetic AlliancesChapter 12: Affective Alliances: A Feminist Schizoanalysis of Feminine Anxiety, Dis/orientation, and Affect AliensCeliese Lypka (University of Calgary, Canada)Chapter 13: Alice in Wonderwater: Hysteria, Femininity, and Alliance in Clinical AestheticsFernanda Negrete (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)Chapter 14: Asceticism and Spiritual Aversion from Schizoanalysis to Kris Kraus Austin Sarfan (Duke University, US)Chapter 15: A Schizo-Revolutionary Labial Theory of Artistic PracticeHollie Mackenzie (University of Kent, UK)