"At this point, I am fully convinced that Deleuze is just poetry for art students. In the history of organized labor, there is no shop stewart who ever said the word “rhizome” or talked about “bodies without organs”. Simply put, this stuff has no relevance to organized political life. "
This seems like something of a bizarre statement from a researcher. How can you say that "this stuff" (referring to an entire body of work) has no relevance to organized political life while presenting survey results from politically-active individuals deeply influenced by "this stuff"? Meanwhile implying that working-class people can't or won't read/understand it. I get that it's not easy to read or apply in the straightforward ways we expect from modernist philosophy, but it seems quite clearly relevant to contemporary political life, if only because it has been influential for many people, including other influential philosophers. I am a working class person. I've engaged in union organizing, direct action on behalf my union, and other organized political activity, and "this stuff" is not irrelevant to my life or work.
"At this point, I am fully convinced that Deleuze is just poetry for art students. In the history of organized labor, there is no shop stewart who ever said the word “rhizome” or talked about “bodies without organs”. Simply put, this stuff has no relevance to organized political life. "
This seems like something of a bizarre statement from a researcher. How can you say that "this stuff" (referring to an entire body of work) has no relevance to organized political life while presenting survey results from politically-active individuals deeply influenced by "this stuff"? Meanwhile implying that working-class people can't or won't read/understand it. I get that it's not easy to read or apply in the straightforward ways we expect from modernist philosophy, but it seems quite clearly relevant to contemporary political life, if only because it has been influential for many people, including other influential philosophers. I am a working class person. I've engaged in union organizing, direct action on behalf my union, and other organized political activity, and "this stuff" is not irrelevant to my life or work.