Deleuze-Guattari and Post-Modernism: a Critical Approach to Aesthetic Politics

The question before this article is simple: What is the relationship between the thought of Gilles Deleuze - Felix Guattari and postmodernism? What benefits or can postmodernism benefit from these two? If we accept Frederick Jameson’s definition of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism, then is Deleuze - in Slavoj Zizek’s terms - one of the ideologies of digital capitalism? And in what sense is it an ideology? Our attempt in this article is to show how Deleuze (aesthetic politics, schizophrenic politics, or Deleuze and Guattari ethics) adapts to today’s postmodernist world and loses its revolutionary character. In this article, we have assumed the reader’s previous acquaintance with Deleuze and Guattari, and our attention is more focused on the critiques of Deleuze and Guattari and review of them, because there is not much time here to pay detailed attention to their views.