Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

I stayed there two days. Then I was transported to the Fresnes prison, which was already high-tech. You stayed alone in a cell, ...

at the centre, and had insisted on the right to dissent, while we prob- ably should have insisted much more on the affirmative, ...

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2 The Happy Depression 1 The ‘Félix machine’ is situated at the point of maximum expansion in the blossoming of a nomadic, provi ...

What is depression? Depression has something to do with the problem of sense. Sense is the production of desire. Desire is dissi ...

Felix did not pay attention to depression, neither as a philosopher, nor as a psychoanalyst. And we can easily understand why. T ...

The dissolution of a desiring community inaugurates the painful spreading of chaos, of an absence of sense. It is ‘kipple’, Phil ...

The words available to us were no longer able to seduce the world’s ears, the concepts didn’t grasp reality any more, the moveme ...

The community I am describing is not based on the origin, on the past, on the ties with the earth, the blood or identity. It is ...

Enlightenment is the understanding of the nullity of samsara, of experience, and this is why the enlightened can live desire wit ...

16 3 Integrated World Capitalism (From the simulation of global war to the reality of globalization)^1 The early 1980s While Pre ...

Many years later, when the Soviet giant had already collapsed under the economic, military and ideological pressure from the Wes ...

In sharp contrast, Guattari focused his attention on the planetary integration of capitalism: The great crisis of this end of mi ...

violent transformation, and the fear of aggression and violence. At the same time, we know well today that the end of social-aut ...

assemblage, of a horizontal integration across different moments of the labour process (planning, partial manufacturing of kinds ...

crete, direct action of the technologies, allowing the instantaneous movement of information. Abstract Marxist values overcoded ...

22 4 Planetary Psychopathology Félix Guattari died one night in August 1992. This was when the illusion of peace evaporated whic ...

A certain universal representation of subjectivity, incarnated by cap- italist colonialism in both East and West, has gone bankr ...