Abstract
The proposed project sets out to develop an anthropology based on the conceptual apparatus developed in the works of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Traditionally, (philosophical) anthropology is characterized by highly essentialist theories (for instance: man as the rational, political, or loving being). These theories facilitate the exclusion of certain minorities, have been proven incapable of describing certain non-Western cultures, and most importantly presuppose a fully functioning human being that acts upon the world, without ever being affected by the world on a fundamental level. Recent years have seen a call from theorists for a (philosophical) anthropology that circumvents or solves these problems. For various reasons, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can be used to answer that call. His philosophy captures reality in terms of processes and views human beings as always already implicated in specific types of networks called assemblages or multiplicities. Deleuze provides the proper concepts to formulate an anthropology that does not present the human being as an always-unaffected rational actor, but as what one could call a knot of diverse processes, events and influences whose interaction results in the emergence of the human being. In other words, Deleuze's philosophy always operates on the insight that the only way to properly describe beings is to analyze their becomings.