Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

but it does not seem that anyone has devoted courses solely to Guattari. So now that you mention it to me it is the time to begi ...

pleasure and so forth ... And then the literary references are so numer- ous that it is too hard to synthetize them. GM:So, the ...

attention to us, and then in the summer of 1977, there were a hundred or so persons imprisoned in Italy for different reasons. T ...

GM:Why do you think that today, in the international academic world but especially in the Anglo-Saxon countries, there is a grea ...

‘machinic’ as Guattari would say, is increasingly entering the constitu- tion of the communicative relations and even our corpor ...

in the 1920s who wanted their own freedom and a decent salary, but who didn’t frame this project in a palingenetic, dialectical ...

often in Autonomist thought, the PCI is considered somewhat like the party of historical compromise, the party at the basis of t ...

GM:... that there were positive and constitutive sides of it ... So to speak precisely about an extremely contemporary matter, t ...

the political powers that they cease using French and instead use English, that is, to make Minitel an open system. Naturally, h ...

people began to think that we had entered a phase in which the power war was such that the communication tools were no longer ad ...

GM:So let us return to Guattari. One of the questions that we have is about Guattari’s language. That is, over twenty-five years ...

Bifo:I would really be pleased if I were able to do so. GM: Well, another question we had was about the collaboration between De ...

Bifo:Well, from what I understood, Félix himself was very discreet about this, protective. The topic of his relationship with De ...

see it as resonating with Maurizio Lazzarato’s thoughts on the immaterial, on the cognitive phase of capitalism? Bifo:OK, first ...

Because at a certain point, it seemed that immaterial work was exempt from exploitation. Bifo:Yes, but on this point work has be ...

GM:Do you think that his meeting with Negri might have prevented that from happening? Bifo:Certainly, certainly! That is, the re ...

in depression. And then, nothing, a glimmer of awareness came forth in the introduction of What Is Philosophy?,when Deleuze and ...

depression. If you insist in not wanting to see this fact, you end up continuing to use tools that prevent you from acting. GM:Y ...

Except for Latouche’s hypothesis, which is the concept of post- development.^12 The paradigm of postdevelopment is the discovery ...

position of absolute disaffection with politics, and so this probably played a role, but I considered Félix’s activism to be an ...