Deleuze and the City

Uses the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to interrogate what cities can do

Defining the lives of a majority of the world’s population, the question of ‘the city’ has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time – uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research.

Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute ‘the city’ today.

Dispelling the old question of what the city is, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the ‘laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a ‘sustainable’ Swedish shopping mall to the ‘urbicidal’ refurbishments of Haifa.

Notes on Contributors

Ronnen Ben-Arie, Tel-Aviv University and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Marc Boumeester, AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art & Design, Netherlands.

Magnus Eriksson, Lund University, Sweden, University of Macerata, Italy and the Interactive Institute, Sweden.

Ignacio Farías, Technische Universität München, Germany.

Hélène Frichot, KTH School of Architecture, Sweden, and RMIT University, Australia.

Catharina Gabrielsson, KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack, Sweden.

Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.

Maria Hellström Reimer, Malmö University and the Swedish Design Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, Sweden

Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Stefan Höhne, TU Berlin, Germany.

Louise Beltzung Horvath, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Michele Lancione, University of Cambridge, UK.

Janet McGaw, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Markus Maicher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Jonathan Metzger, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.

Karl Palmås, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Mark Purcell, University of Washington, USA.

Andrej Radman, TU Delft, Netherlands.

AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; University of Cape Town, South Africa; Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Indonesia and University of Tarumanagara, Indonesia.

Fredrika Spindler, Södertörn University, Sweden.

Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Södertörn University, Sweden.