Grossberg has also used Deleuzean philosophy to reconsider the ethics and politics of cultural studies, proposing a politics of 'spatial becoming'.
He has used Deleuzean ontology to argue against modernist, postmodernist and post-structuralist conceptualizations of identity and subjectivity and proposes, instead, that cultural studies develop a machinic theory of agency.
Grossberg argues that Deleuzean philosophy provides cultural studies with a way out of the epistemological problematic that has dominated critical theory. To develop this alternative terrain, Grossberg has drawn on the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, whose work was based on a Spinozist ontology, a 'monism of multiplicities'. In a series of essays published in the 1990s, Lawrence Grossberg proposed a spatial-materialist cultural studies, arguing that our key metatheoretical assumptions about reality, agency, ethics and politics needed to be reconceptualized on amodern philosophical terrain-not within, or even against, the philosophical frameworks of modernism and postmodernism but outside them.
