When is a book about Deleuze, paradoxically, not a book about Deleuze? When it’s by Slavoj Zizek. Jean-Jacques Lecercle reviews the latest theory romp from the Slovenian philosophy king

Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences, Slavoj Zizek, London: Routledge, 2004

Melanie Gilligan casts a sceptical eye over Richard Doyle’s ‘postvital’ experiments

Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living, Richard Doyle, Minnesota Press, 2003

How does control exist after decentralisation? asks Alexander Galloway’s book Protocol. Mark Poster is still waiting for an answer

Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralisation, Alexander Galloway, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004

Anja Büchele on Jean-Jacques Lecercle's Deleuze and Language

Deleuze and Language, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

‘mythical people are realistic and realistic people are mythical’1

What is it that typifies and stymies organisational cultures, be they enterprising or oppositional? The repression of psychical multiplicity and alterity into the strait-jacket of the Self, argues Howard Slater

Tom McCarthy on Necropia.com

Eliot Albert challenges Manuel De Landa over his perfunctory dismissal of Marxism in his latest book

Matthew Hyland reviews Greg Lambert's book - the latest release from the academic Deleuze factory - and finds some unexpectedly lucid passages amidst the excess baggage

'I've got squirting glue out of my hands that gets people. I've got lines the come out of my eyes
special eyes that lines come out of and poke people and make a blast.......' short fiction by Matt Fuller

Eugene Thacker looks at the biotech debate being waged between writers Francis Fukuyama and Gregory Stock.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941), a French philosopher highly influential in the first half of the 20th century, proposed a dramatic new way of thinking about time and duration that took into account mathematics, psychology and evolution. Keith Ansell Pearson’s new book on Bergson could also be read as a Bergsonian introduction to Deleuze. The opening paragraph cites Deleuze as its starting point and Pearson makes continual reference to his work throughout.

In the exhibition 'Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis' at the beginning of this year, the Hayward Gallery had an opportunity to tackle the long and tortuous relationship between society and those it defines as mentally ill. Josephine Berry examines the way in which the Prinzhorn collection was presented, and traces out the relationships it reveals to past and present interpretations of insanity.

The Great Deleuze and Guattari debate - part 2

The Great Deleuze and Guattari debate - part 1

Conference review