Gregg Lambert’s conceptually astute and elegantly composed The People Are Missing offers a double provocation. First, because it is thought-provoking the proper response is a turn to concepts. Second, given that this is a forum for which the response is to write, it enjoins the issue of composition, the creation of a literary space to organize the concepts. Because the richness of Lambert’s text defies synopsis, I am organizing my response with attention to one of the Deleuze quotations among the many that have inspired Lambert’s composition, and one brief but very key quotation from Lambert’s text.
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It is difficult to decide where to best begin in responding to Gregg Lambert’s elegantly sly riffs on Deleuze’s refrain, “The people are missing,” as there is much that I agree with in his readings and diagnoses. Let me begin, then, by singling out this particularly delicious provocation: “In order to liberate the concept of ‘minor literature’ today, the first thing we do, let’s kill all the critics, and second, close all the creative writing factories.”
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