Philosophy and the Search for a New Public

This article poses a relatively simple question from a Deleuzian perspective: what does it mean to do public philosophy? The orientation itself entails two framing claims. First, that philosophy is nothing but the creation of concepts, and second, that the qualifier ‘public’ here precisely concerns the relationship between philosophy and its role in the production of a new people. It is the potency of Deleuze and Guattari's claim which is at stake here: what can such a definition of philosophy offer to collective struggles against systemic abjection and exploitation? Is the passion for philosophy itself a passion for revolution or resistance? This article will grapple with the psychosocial undercurrents of concept creation and the role of non-philosophy in shaping the authorship of public philosophy. What decisions or criteria are brought to bear insofar as this creation concerns a specific people, or a specific earth?