Immanent relations: Deleuze and Guattari in cultural studies

This thesis accounts for the emerging relation between the theory and method central to cultural studies and the ontological position presupposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The relation between the two is approached in terms of the ways in which the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari increasingly enable the theory and method of articulation to account for greater abstractions of reality. Insofar as the development of cultural studies may be understood in part by changing conceptions of articulation, it is argued that what we are witnessing in the detour through Deleuze and Guattari is a critical moment in the history of cultural studies' ongoing reconfiguration.