A Thousand Plateaus supports the formation of reading groups for activists and revolutionaries based on poststructuralist philosophy explicitly tailored to the local political situation.
Facilitators lead discussion on philosophical topics with an eye to brainstorming concrete tactics that can be used in local political struggles. This approach cultivates the appropriate balance between the abstract, theoretical and tactical, practical. The primary goal of the reading group is to enable effective political action through creative philosophical thinking. The key text is A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari.
This organization was founded on the principle that the activist with dreams of the revolutionary should turn to Nietzsche, Foucault and Deleuze for a philosophy that strengthens their ability to act in a way that will have the most damage on the State and the conceptual systems that form a symbiotic relationship with the State. [learn more]
athousandplateaus.org is a project of Why War?