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Going out of Fashion, the fate of theory.
Ian Buchanan, University of Tasmania
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The question of whether Deleuze and Guattari are postmodernists or not is first of all a question about what postmodernism itself means. To put it slightly differently, it means asking how it would change our perception of these two theorists were we to start thinking of them as postmodernists (in spite of their own protestations to the contrary). Despite the bad press 'postmodernism' has been getting lately, there are several good arguments for applying this label to them. The main one, I will argue, is that it allows their work to be seen more clearly as participating in a global debate - as, in fact, ennacting a global critique. Postmodernism, then, becomes a way of dispossessing Deleuze and Guattari of their forbidding Frenchness.
