If not peak Deleuze, then peak positivity, and high-time to throw off the overbearing weight of contemporary theory's obsession with affirmation: "Affirm. Enhance. Maximize. Optimize. Expand." http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/peak-deleuze-and-the-red-bull-sublime …
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Looking at theoretical positions through the lens of trends peaks and fatigues is not the best heuristics tho
Very true, and I’m not in full agreement with how Galloway frames the issue. But I do agree on two points: the shortcomings of the trend as a theoretical issue (Culp’s Dark Deleuze is convincing in this respect—affirmation too often begets complacency), and...
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...and that it is a trend with a range of expression limited by a its own enforced positivity. I’d like to think that with fatigue will come more interesting and critical takes on the topic. Even in Bennett or Braidotti there are traces of negativity to be explored.
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Agreed. But as
@deontologistics outlined, the conflation of various types of negativity, which was the first sin of Deleuze’s in many respects, is what desperately needs critique, and, really, taking leave
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Not sure I find the thesis of that book entirely convincing, that table where he converts affirmationist concepts to spooky and dark ones made me laugh. He also sporadically employs concepts from across D’s oeuvre as though it were a coherent system—it’s dogmatic.
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It is such a cute little table, and a shame that the one-for-one inversion of affirmationist concepts structures so much of the book. I recall seeing him backtrack on the polemic in FB threads: to a more defensible position of positive ontology coupled with negative politics.
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