Deleuze and the City

The city as complex compound of cultural and natural forces and flows is characterised in multifarious and contradictory ways. A city is never just a transforming built environment of a particular scale or global reputation, but located, specific, differentiated and impossible to grasp in all its complexity.

The 16 contributors to this collection re-deploy conceptual tools of Deleuze and Guattari, and demonstrate in many instances how these tools can be altered and revised to meet the problematic urban fields in question. This also means calling on the legacy of Deleuze and Guattari by way of those thinkers and practitioners who follow after, and who have augmented and altered their project.

Deleuze and the City asks what a city can do, how its human and non-human relations can be made sufficiently durable, how we can make ourselves worthy of our encounters in the city, how we might expand and contract its influence, and participate in the formation of affirmative rather than destructive subjective, social and environmental ecologies.

Helene Frichot is Assistant Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden. She has co-curated the Architecture+Philosophy public lecture series in Melbourne, Australia (http://architecture.testpattern.com.au) since 2005. Between 2004-2011 she held an academic position in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. While her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004).

Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm. She has published extensively on architecture, art and urban issues, with some of her work appearing inField/Work (Routledge, 2010), Curating Architecture and the City (Routledge, 2009) and Deleuze and Architecture (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

Jonathan Metzger is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Stockholm. He is co-editor ofPlanning Against the Political (Routledge, 2014) and Sustainable Stockholm: Exploring Urban Sustainability in Europe's Greenest City (Routledge, 2013).