Resisting financialisation with Deleuze and Guattari: The case of Occupy Wall Street

TLDR: In this article, the authors draw on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and the example of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in order to indicate how contemporary processes of financialisation might continue to be resisted.

About: This article is published in Critical Perspectives on Accounting.The article was published on 2017-05-03 and is currently open access. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deleuze and Guattari.

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Q1. What are the contributions in "Resisting financialisation with deleuze and guattari: the case of occupy wall street" ?

Financialisation did not emerge uncontested and so the authors also present five of the barriers which it overcame. The authors employ Deleuze ’ s ( 1992 ) concept of ‘ societies of control ’ as a lens to examine finance and financialisation, before examining contemporary resistance to financialisation, taking OWS as their case study. The concepts of ‘ itinerant politics ’ and ‘ relay ’ provide us with further insights into the nature of OWS, particularly with respect to its model of ‘ distributed leadership ’ and, through this, its generation of a situated resistance to financialisation. 

Q2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Resisting financialisation with deleuze and guattari: the case of occupy wall street" ?

Occupy ’ s quality as an event, in which the ‘ present state of things ’ is ruptured is important both for the sheer fact of contesting finance in such a visible fashion and for the way in which Occupy managed to shift popular understanding, not only of the present and of future possibilities, but also of the past. In this very real sense then, the authors can rupture with the state of things, for Deleuze the event is also a moment of excess, that is to say of pure intensity according to an affective as opposed to a rationalist logic.