Introduction Deleuze and Space

Abstract

This introductory chapter begins with discussion of the development of conceptions of space and place in post-war Europe and America. It then considers the proliferation of new concepts of space in Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative works, and views this attention to the problem of space as something distinctive that belongs to their philosophy. The chapter then sets out the purpose of this book, which is to propose a series of partial descriptions of the different regions and assemblages that have been touched and transformed by the concepts created by Deleuze and Guattari. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.