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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together essays on Deleuze and Guattari's treatment of science in A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy?, as well as looking in detail at scientific issues such as emergence, complexity theory and non-linear dynamics.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, John Marks; Deleuze Guattari and Emergence, John Protevi; Chaosmologies: Quantum Field Theory, Chaos and Thought in Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?, Arkady Plotnitsky; Chaos and Control: Nanotechnology and the Politics of Emergence, Matthew Kearnes; Molecular Biology in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari, John Marks; Science and Dialectics in the Philosophies of Deleuze, Bachelard and DeLanda, James Williams; The Difference Between Science and Philosophy: the Spinoza-Boyle Controversy Revisited, Simon Duffy; Becoming Interdisciplinary: Making Sense of DeLanda's Reading of Deleuze, David Holdsworth.