This brief article traces the intersecting lines and stories of this special issue on Deleuze and intimacy. It offers a take how it found its way onto these pages after nearly 2 years and through two conference symposia, and outlines how the contributions—variously and differently—make a case for intimacy, through Deleuze, as an approach to, a subject of, and/or a necessary and vital affective force in, research—and beyond.
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DeleuzeG.GuattariF. (2004). A thousand plateaus (MassumiB., Trans.). Continuum.
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MotenF.HarneyS. (2013). The undercommons: Fugitive planning and black study. Minor Compositions.
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TuckE. (2010). Breaking up with Deleuze: Desire and valuing the irreconcilable. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23(5), 635–650.
