Фашист ли е субектът?: Дельоз и Гатари в руините на фашизма
Is the Subject a Fascist?: Deleuze and Guattari in the Ruins of Fascism

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I first briefly reconstruct Gilles Deleuze’s views on the subject in order to elaborate on the problem of the sociopolitical nature of the subject after Deleuze’s philosophy of difference. After reviewing Deleuze’s early reading of the subject and subjectivity, I address the question of whether the subject is normal, and move on to summarize Deleuze’s later views on both desire and the subject/subjectivity in his work with Félix Guattari in Capitalism and Schizophrenia, as well as connecting his analysis of the subject to the practices of micropolitics and antifascism. This leads me to my second and ultimately speculative question: Is the subject a fascist, or a fascist structure of individuation? My main claim is that the entire life and critical path of Deleuze’s philosophy is reducible to an impersonal antifascism, which he reveals most vividly towards the end of his life, by showing, especially with the help of Guattari, that the very structure of the subject can be both an agent and victim of fascist desire. The radical hypothesis is that something has changed in the conditions of the post-Deleuzean subject and that it is now fascist, and it is precisely in this sense the subject is abnormal and has the essential structure of deviation from the virtual conception of the „human“.

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