A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and GuattariA User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" strains of psychoanalysis. The second, A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy. |
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abstract machine action actual Anti-Oedipus becoming becoming-other Bergson bifurcation body without organs body's called capital capitalist relation causality cocausal concept connective synthesis constraint content and expression defined Deleuze and Guattari dense points desire deterritorialization diagram Différence et répétition differential dimension disjunctive synthesis dissipative structure dynamic effect encounter enveloped equilibrium essence existence fascism fascist-paranoid Félix Félix Guattari forces form of content form of expression formations Foucault fractal attractor function Gilles grid human hyperdifferentiation identity immanent inclusive conjunctive inclusive disjunctive incorporeal transformation indeterminacy individual infinite language limits linguistic Logic of Sense meaning molar molecular movement neoconservative nonlimitative Oedipal order-word overcoding Paris part-objects perception Philosophy plane of immanence plane of transcendence political potential Prigogine production quasicause singular social field society structure substance superabstract supermolecular surplus value things thought Thousand Plateaus threshold tion Toni Negri Translated unity virtual whole attractors words