Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

World Trade Organization meeting scheduled that day in Seattle,

Washington. For a summary of events, see the Global Action Day reports at

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/ initiativ/agp/free/seattle/n30/index.htm.

2. See the Collective A/traverso’s (1980) statement about free radios, ‘Radio
   Alice – Free Radio’.


3. The unrest to which Bifo refers corresponds, in general, to student demon-
   strations against State oppression organized by the Autonomia Movement in
   Rome, Palermo, Naples, Florence, Torino and Bologna in early 1977, espe-
   cially in March, following which Bifo fled to avoid arrest. His account of
   these events appears in Berardi (Bifo), the Semiotext(e)essay ‘Anatomy of
   Autonomy’ (1980). See the website Affinity Project (1980) for summaries
   of the Autonomist Movement and its leaders (including Bifo).


4. In ‘Anatomy of Autonomy’ Bifo describes this September Convention as ‘the
   great opportunity – missed, however – for the Movement to overcome its
   purely negative, destructive connotations, and formulate a programmatic
   position for the autonomous organization of a real society against the State ...
   Unfortunately, the Convention turned into a reunion against repression, and
   this greatly reduced the theoretical importance and the possibilities of this
   period ... The gathering concluded without producing any direction for the
   future, any new program, and without advancing the Movement’ (59–60).


5. Guattari’s account of this political repression is collected in the essays com-
   prising Les Années d’hiver, 1980–1985(1986).

Chapter 2

1. In the original title for the chapter – La depressione Félix– the author plays
   with the literal meaning of Guattari’s first name, felix, which in Latin means
   ‘happy’.


2. See Chapter 1, footnote 6.


3. In English in the original.


4. The reference is to a retrospective exhibition of works by the Swiss sculptor
   Jean Tinguely at the Paris Beaubourg museum in 1988.


5. In French in the original. Once again, Bifo is alluding to the book Les Années
   d’hiver(1986).


6. Bifo alludes to the book by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,
   where Dick defines kipple as ‘unwanted or useless junk that tends to repro-
   duce itself’ (Dick 1968). It is a great threat that risks submerging the Earth.


7. This name refers to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. For a Deleuzian relation to
   the text, see Robert Glass (2001).

Chapter 3

1. Except for the final paragraph, this chapter serves as introduction to
   Guattari’s 1977 book Piano sul pianeta(vii–xiv).


2. The reference is to the struggles of the Solidarity Movement in the 1980s
   against Soviet control.


3. Another, more concise text related to this one is Guattari’s 1979 ‘Plan for the
   Planet’.

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