The People Are Missing av Gregg Lambert

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“The people are missing” is a constant refrain in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s writings after the 1975 publication of <I>Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure</I>. With the translation of this work into English (<I>Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature</I>) in 1986, the refrain quickly became a hallmark of political interpretation in the North American academy and was especially applied to the works of minorities and postcolonial writers. However, in the second cinema book, <I>Cinéma 2: L’Image-temps</I>, the refrain is restricted to third-world cinema, in which Deleuze and Guattari locate the conditions of truly postwar political cinema: the absence, even the impossibility, of a people who would constitute its organic community.<BR/><BR/> In this critical reflection, Gregg Lambert traces the “narrowing” of the refrain itself, as well as the premise that the act of art is capable of inventing the conditions of a “people” o