Christophe Fiat's 'La Ritournelle' as Anti-Theory

Christophe Fiat's book 'La Ritournelle, une anti-théorie' (Éditions Léo Scheer) challenges the overwhelming influence of Gilles Deleuze's thought, which has become a matrix for many contemporary artists and writers. Fiat engages with Deleuzian concepts such as 'image-mouvement', 'machine désirante', and 'cristal', but diverges by focusing on rhythm and the 'ritournelle' (refrain), creating a 'langue sans organe' that is uniquely his own. The work incorporates dance, music, body, repetition, and elements of hacking and cracking, positioning itself as a revolutionary poetic war. Fiat's primordial figure is the gallop, specifically the suspension between things, where a people, a horse, a sound, or a sensation emerges and repeats in infinite difference. The book defies literary genre classification, functioning as an anti-theory that dissolves the subject into object, meat, immanence, and virus. Yan Ciret reviews the work, noting its departure from the Spinozist and Bergsonian aspects of Deleuze, emphasizing instead a rhythmic fusion that adds another plateau to Deleuze/Guattari's affects and percepts.