Deleuze, subjectivity and nonhuman becomings in the Anthropocene

Abstract

This commentary takes up Ruddick’s ((2017) Rethinking the subject, reimagining worlds. Dialogues in Human Geography) imperative to reimagine subjectivity against the backdrop of the current ecological crisis. It contextualizes Ruddick’s reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming-animal with a broader trajectory of Deleuze’s work on subjectivity. It does so in order to question how a shift from the liberal humanist subject to constructivist and relational models of subjectivity might be beneficial as we grapple with the concept of the human in the Anthropocene.