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8 - Becoming Israeli/Israeli Becomings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

By
Laurence J. Silberstein
Edited by
Ian Buchanan  and
Adrian Parr
Laurence J. Silberstein
Affiliation:
Lehigh University
Ian Buchanan
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong
Adrian Parr
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati
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Summary

Although in previous writings on postzionism (Silberstein 1999), I drew my primary critical tools of analysis from Foucault, I had already begun to sense the importance of Deleuze and Guattari to my project. Applying such concepts as discourse, power relations, regimes of truth and power/knowledge, I analysed both Zionism and postzionism in terms of discourse and the debates between zionists and postzionists as a conflict of discourses. Over the years, however, I have increasingly sensed the inadequacy of that representation. Through a continued reading of Deleuze and Guattari, I have come to see ways in which their concepts move the discussion beyond the place enabled by my application of Foucault. Some of my own reservations have been cogently stated by Deleuze:

If I speak, with Felix, of the agencement (assemblage) of desire, it is because I am not sure that micro-dispotifs can be described in terms of power. For myself, an agencement of desire is never either a ‘natural’ or a ‘spontaneous’ determination … Desire circulates in this agencement of heterogeneous elements, in this type of ‘symbiosi’ … In short, it is not the dispotifs of power that assemble (agenceraient) nor would they be constitutive; it is rather the agencements of desire that would spread throughout the formations of power following one of their dimensions.

(Deleuze 1997: 185–6)
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Deleuze and the Contemporary World , pp. 146 - 160
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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