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Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Dystopia

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers an insightful history of utopian and dystopian literature that leads to a new taxonomy of dystopian fiction
  • Integrates the new notions of transgressive and immanent dystopia within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari
  • Provides a nuanced and perceptive reading of contemporary dystopian literature

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction: Postscript on Dystopia Today

    • Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
    Pages 1-15
  3. Dystopia from Transcendence to Immanence

    • Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
    Pages 17-41
  4. Dystopia After Late Capitalism

    • Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
    Pages 43-64
  5. Minoritarian Politics of Contemporary Dystopia

    • Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
    Pages 65-74
  6. Schizoanalysis of Contemporary Dystopia

    • Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
    Pages 75-91
  7. Conclusion: Contemporary Dystopia as an Art of the Possible

    • Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
    Pages 179-195
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 197-201

About this book

This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than present society, contemporary dystopia often tends to portray an almost allegorical re-presentation of present society.  Tracing dystopia’s shift from transcendence towards immanence with the rise of late neoliberal capitalism and control-societies, Çokay Nebioğlu skilfully constructs a new taxonomy of dystopian fiction to address this changing dynamic. 

Accompanied by a subtle exploration of earlier and later examples of the genre by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, William Gibson, Max Barry, Dave Eggers, Cindy Pon, and Tahsin Yücel along with rich and nuanced analysis of China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, the book seeks not only to track the transformation of dystopia in light of worldwide cultural, political and economic transformation, but also to conduct a schizoanalytic reading of dystopia, thus opening up an exciting field of enquiry for Deleuzian scholars.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Ankara, Turkey

    Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu

About the author

Rahime Cokay Nebioglu is a former Fulbright Scholar in the Literature Program at Duke University, USA, and is currently working as a research assistant at Gazi University, Turkey. She also serves as the non-fiction editor of the Journal of Absurdity and Horror

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Dystopia

  • Authors: Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43145-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43144-0Published: 20 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43147-1Published: 21 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43145-7Published: 19 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 201

  • Topics: Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Poststructuralism, Contemporary Literature

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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