The papers in this collection concern Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's treatment of science in A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy? and address in detail the scientific issues of emergence, complexity theory, non-linear dynamics, modern mathematics and physics, and nanotechnology. These papers also explore the ways in which Deleuze and Guattari were acutely aware of post-war revolutions in physics, biology, and information technology. Recent work on Deleuze has identified the central role of the articulation between the virtual and the actual in Deleuze's "image of thought", and this volume exemplifies the importance of science in elaborating Deleuze's concept of the virtual.

John Marks is Reader in French in the Department of Modern Languages at The Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity

Introduction, John Marks; Deleuze Guattari and Emergence, John Protevi; Chaosmologies: Quantum Field Theory, Chaos and Thought in Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?, Arkady Plotnitsky; Chaos and Control: Nanotechnology and the Politics of Emergence, Matthew Kearnes; Molecular Biology in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari, John Marks; Science and Dialectics in the Philosophies of Deleuze, Bachelard and DeLanda, James Williams; The Difference Between Science and Philosophy: the Spinoza-Boyle Controversy Revisited, Simon Duffy; Becoming Interdisciplinary: Making Sense of DeLanda's Reading of Deleuze, David Holdsworth.