Arturo Escobar
aescobar@email.unc.edu
Michal Osterweil
osterwei@email.unc.edu
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Abstract:
This paper offers a first approach to read contemporary social movements from Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective. This approach can be situated in several trends in postconstructivist social sciences towards what Mexican researcher Manuel de Landa has called “flat ontologies” (theories of network, assemblages, emergence and self-organization, and others). It states that one of the more important functions of social movements is to articulate a politics of the virtual, which could to provide guidelines to build worlds and knowledge beyond Euro/logo centrism of dominant institutions of modernity.
Keywords: Deleuze and Guattari, De Landa, flat ontologies, social movements, deterritorialization/territorialization.
