“Deleuzism is not just a piece of standard academic scholarship. Buchanan reads with and through Deleuze.” - Oliver C. Speck , Ephemera
“[A] noteworthy and ambitious project . . . .” - Kalliopi Nikolopoulou , Symploke
“[P]rovides a compelling answer to one of the most difficult questions facing ‘Deleuzians’: ‘how should one read Deleuze?’. . . . [R]ecommend[ed] for its insights into Deleuze and, even, for some of the uses of Deleuze that [Buchanan] offers. . . .” - Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Newsletter
“The reader of this book will welcome the way that the study, for the most part an extended and exhaustive comparison of the concepts of whole and totality in Deleuze and Fredric Jameson, will find a common space, the movie theater, where the American and French philosopher are likely to meet. Therein begins common speculation on the medium and what we can do with it.” - Tom Conley , Quarterly Review of Film and Video
“With this example, we might locate a new prescription and perhaps a new style of commentary on Deleuze’s philosophy.” - Gregg Lambert , Southern Review
"[A] refreshingly sympathetic treatment. . . . [An] outstanding volume. . . ." - Ronald Bogue , Comparatist
“An engaging and provocative treatment of the principal features of Deleuze’s philosophy and their applicability to cultural studies. Buchanan’s metacommentary should go a long way toward renewing discussions of Deleuze’s status as a radical social and political philosopher.” - Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia
“Buchanan’s approach to Deleuze is entirely original. He gets outside of Deleuzianism and gives us a fresh view on his thought—not refuting it but rather seeing it from a different perspective and then using it in a different way.” - Michael Hardt, Duke University
“Buchanan’s book is a ground-breaking, comprehensive examination of the thought of Gilles Deleuze work that ranges widely across Deleuze’s solo and coauthored works as well as popular music, architecture, and film, and raises important new questions about the relations of Deleuzism to dialectics, utopian thought, and cultural studies. It is sure to be an essential point of reference for further Deleuze studies.” - Gene Holland
