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  Félix Guattari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beyond this, as Guattari would later proclaim, psychoanalysis is "the best capitalist drug" because in it desire is confined to a couch: desire, in Lacanian psychoanalysis, is an energy that is contained rather than one that, if freed, could militantly engage itself in something different.
Guattari also took part in the movement of the psychological G.T., which gathered many psychiatrists at the beginning of the sixties and created the Association of Institutional Psychotherapy in November 1965.
It was at this time that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus (1972), which Michel Foucault described as "an introduction to the non-fascist life" in his preface to the book.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/F%E9lix_Guattari   (882 words)

  
 Liminal Subjectivity and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm of Félix Guattari
Guattari suggests that this might be achieved by the introduction of a certain 'narrative element' of tolerance based on a conception of 'constellations of Universes of value' which would facilitate a respect amongst proponents of belief systems of different or even opposing types.
Guattari has no faith in the dominant scientific and rationalist paradigms in this regard, because their conservative tendencies and rules and thus their distance from the ontological root of creativity make them incapable of engendering the kind of adaptability which seems to be required if we are to confront our most pressing global problems.
Guattari conceives of a generalized ecology, he calls it 'ecosophy', which would include the crucial component of an ecology of the virtual, enacting an aesthetic paradigm that places emphasis on liminality and its creative potentialities and pays less heed to the stratifications of science and rationalist principles.
limen.mi2.hr /limen1-2001/stephen_arnott.html   (5071 words)

  
 Diagrammatica: Index of Designers
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari: Schema of the Postsignifying
Guattari, Félix and Gilles Deleuze: Schema of the Signifying Semiotic (1980)
Guattari, Félix and Gilles Deleuze: Schema of the Postsignifying
www.factoryschool.org /backlight/diagrammatica/designer.html   (191 words)

  
 Félix Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Not very well known to the general public, Pierre Félix Guattari was in the 1960's to become a central figure defining theevents of May 1968 and its aftermath.
Guattari took part in the movement of the psychological G.T., which gathered many psychiatrists at the beginning of theSixties and created the Association of Institutional Psychotherapy in November 1965.
It was atthis time that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University ofVincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus.
www.therfcc.org /f%E9lix-guattari-18841.html   (737 words)

  
 Guattari, culturele antropologie, en het einde van het Westers subject
In dit opzicht is Guattari's avontuur toch een vlucht naar binnen, en is het geen toeval dat de cultureel andere, en tot op zekere hoogte de historisch andere, in zijn werk nauwelijks een rol speelt.
Guattari ziet zeer juist hoe de constructie van identiteiten rond etniciteit en identiteit een van de belangrijkste verschijnselen van de hedendaagse wereld is, als uitdrukking van de wereldwijd steeds maar toenemende behoefte aan een subjectieve eigenheid.
Guattari is nog zo genereus om hierin mede een streven naar nationale bevrijding te zien, maar heeft daarnaast gelukkig vooral oog voor het feit dat dit vaak vormen zijn van de conservatieve herterritorialisering van de subjectiviteit.
ethnicity.bravepages.com /general/gen3/guattari/felix.htm   (9284 words)

  
 Pragmatic/Machinic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I met Guattari in his in the sixth _arrondissement_ apartment, near the Odeon, and we spent about three hours talking, then ran errands in the neighborhood, had lunch, and then continued talking for a few more hours.
Antonio Negri is the Italian intellectual accused of complicity in the Aldo Moro affair and of being the chief of the Red Brigade.
Guattari argues that while "'_Je est un autre_'" (Rimbaud's famous formula for the "I"'s alterity), "this other is not a subject.
www.gpc.edu /~mnunes/guattari.html   (12991 words)

  
 Politics and Culture
Genosko says, "I want to present Guattari as an anti-globalization theorist of the first order and a neglected figure in anti-capitalist struggles" (8-9), and his discussion of this "Summit of Radicals" in relation to contemporary anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements is an engaging volume that will interest a variety of readers.
Guattari and Alliez developed this theory in the early 1980s, the same period in which Guattari was extremely interested in Brazil and its then-burgeoning leftist politics, and the same period that saw the formation of the PT.
Of particular interest to Lula, Guattari, and many involved in today's anti-globalization movement are the problems and potential of the relationship between theory and practice.
aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=320   (1149 words)

  
 Anti-Globalization and Guattari's The Three Ecologies
Guattari’s achievement is to link three spheres of ecology – environmental, social and mental – into a set of interrelations he calls ecosophy, a term he coins seemingly unaware of the “deep ecology” movement or the ecosophy of Arnold Naess.
Part of Guattari’s thesis is that the expansion in communications technology, and, in particular, the development of world telecommunications, has served to shape a new type of passive subjectivity, saturating the unconscious in conformity with global market forces.
Guattari’s transversalist conception of subjectivity escapes the individual-social distinction as well as the givenness or preformedness of the subject either as a person or individual; subjectivity is both collective and auto-producing.
globalization.icaap.org /content/v2.1/02_peters.html   (3219 words)

  
 Felix Guattari Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
This collection of Felix Guattari's essays, lectures, and interviews traces the militant anti-psychiatrist and theorist's thought and activity throughout the 1980s ("the winter years").
Guattari's post-Marxist vision of capitalism provides a new definition not only of mental illness, but also of the micropolitical means of its subversion.
Felix Guattari (1930-1992) was a radical analyst, social theorist and activist-intellectual.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Felix_Guattari   (687 words)

  
 20th WCP: Immanence and Deterritorialization: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Hence the desire of the masochist is immanent to pleasure and not the consequence of a preceding transcendent lack.
Processes of deterritorialization are differentiated again by GUATTARI into 'relative' and 'absolute' deterritorializations: whereas relative deterritorializations retain the possibility of reterritorialization, absolute deterritorializations are marked by the impossibility of being territorialized again.
From this point of view, not yet settled forms and non-standardized forms of existence and modes of amalgamations will not appear - in the historical sense - as forms of the political to be overcome that have yet to be 'sublated'.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Cont/ContGunz.htm   (3051 words)

  
 Felix Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Félix Guattari was born in 1930 in Villeneuve-les-Sablons in France.
In 1967 Guattari was one of the founders of OSARLA (Organization of solidarity and Aid to the Latin-American Revolution), and the following year he was involved in the events of May ’68.
Felix Guattari's first collection of essays and interviews focuses on the French anti-psychiatrist and theorist's work as director of the experimental La Borde clinic and collaborator of philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
www.affinityproject.org /theories/guattari.html   (608 words)

  
 FELIX GUATTARI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Guattari, eterno ribelle, rimase imbrigliato anche in vicende politiche italiane riguardanti l’ Autonomia degli anni ’80 a causa della sua amicizia con Toni Negri, spesso era ospitato nelle assemblee del movimento italiano e fu molto attivo nel denunciare l’avanzata della "restaurazione" in Italia.
Guattari rifiutò sempre di definire scienza la psicoanalisi.
Guattari riconosce nell’inconscio e nel metodo psicoanalitico, tendente a liberare la "parola isterica", le grandi scoperte essenziali e rivoluzionarie del pensiero freudiano.
www.geagea.com /01indi/01_05.htm   (696 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Felix Guattari - Soft Subversions at Epinions.com
Guattari deals with topics as diverse as psychoanalysis, schizoanalytic dream interpretation, capitalism, literature, revolutionary action, technoscience, queer issues, and the list goes on.
However, this collection works as a great introduction to both Guattari's own work and the work he has done in collaboration with Gilles Deleuze.
Guattari is a great thinker and in many ways has been overshadowed by Deleuze.
www.epinions.com /book-review-6F98-8310A10-395E7175-prod4   (336 words)

  
 Félix Guattari (1930 - 1932)
Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy.
Felix Guattari French radical psychologist, political activist, and philosopher.
Best known for his collaborations with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy?, The Guattari Reader makes available for the first time the broad canvas of Guattari's formidable theoretical and activist writings, many previously untranslated, to provide an indispensable companion to the existing literature.
www.jahsonic.com /FelixGuattari.html   (222 words)

  
 rhizomatic
Kellner recognizes the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari, along with Foucault, to a critique of the notion of ideology.
The use of Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome model to discuss hypertext theory is a safer application than the use of their nomad model to discuss how capital's increased dispersion, mobility, and electronic form requires new electronic tactics for disruption of that flow.
Now we can conclude rather definitively that Deleuze and Guattari are quite marginalized within communication studies and that references to their work appear among writers who may not even be considered within the field.
www.thing.net /~rdom/ecd/rhizomatic.html   (11966 words)

  
 BOOKS | Felix Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is a fascinating work whose multidisciplinarity and complexity challenge any library taxonomy: once I saw it filed under psychiatry.
In Machina Res - According to Deleuze & Guattari, we have suffered too long amidst the retrograde critical judgements of mainstream Kafka scholarship.
Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy Series)
books.worldsearch.com /felix-guattari.htm   (414 words)

  
 Amazon.de: A Thousand Plateaus: English Books: Gilles Deleuze,Felix Guattari,Brian Massumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Instead, this book, while daunting to a layperson, CAN be digested by anyone with a quick mind, a long attention span, and a sharp curiosity and interest in the multitude of systems and milieu that form our wriggling sphere of existence.
It takes a while to get used to their strange terms and phrases, and an English-schooled "analytical" philosopher would probably find their work to be nonsense, but D and G work differently.
Deleuze and Guattari correctly predicted the intensification of the stratification of "civilized society" by 1980; they also presaged the World Wide Web and declared their deep suspicions about any and all massive systems for networking humankind before the web ever existed.
www.amazon.de /Thousand-Plateaus-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/0816614024   (987 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: What Is Philosophy?: Books: Gilles Deleuze,Felix Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Indeed, this book was written not long before Guattari died and after many of their great collaborative works.
Deleuze wrote at the beginning of his career detailed histories of particular individual philosophers that he felt to be in line with his and his generations project to do without Hegelian dialectics (this according to Hardt's reading).
In light of their definition of a concept, Deleuze and Guattari are able to say something to those who are often found arguing about subjectivity and objectivity or relativism and absolutes.
www.amazon.ca /What-Philosophy-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/0231079893   (1449 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Guattari Reader (Blackwell Readers): Books: Gary Genosko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Worldweary eco-activist, renegade psychiatrist, authentic poet-socialist, Felix Guattari is a first-rate contemporary thinker whose writings have long pined away in the shadow of his loving cohort, Gilles Deleuze.
The dangers and vicissitudes of the French psycho-pharmaceutical complex are engaged by Guattari's unrepentant desire to make the mental hospital a true community-culture, where "the real relations of force between the personnel and the patients"(42) are restored to the schizo-subject.
The meaning of social life, for Guattari, is to engineer institutions and practices that provide open channels for the exploration of our own subjectivity, supplemented by clinical pathways ready to disinfect those persons who've been wounded by this unrepentant promethean drive.
www.amazon.com /Guattari-Reader-Blackwell-Readers/dp/0631197087   (1512 words)

  
 A Thousand Plateaus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century.
It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path.
With Félix Guattari, he coauthored Anti-Oedipus (1983)and Kafka (1986).
www.upress.umn.edu /Books/D/deleuze_thousand.html   (234 words)

  
 The Three Ecologies -- Felix Guattari
A critique of capitalism and a manifesto for a new way of thinking, this book is also an introduction to the work of one of Europe's most radical thinkers.
This edition includes a chronology of Guattari's life and work, introductions to both his general philosophy and to the work itself and extended notes to the original text.
Near the end of his life, at the height of his powers, Guattari finds a new synthesis in "Ecosophy".
www.frontlist.com /detail/0485006081   (173 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Chaosophy (Foreign Agents): Books: Felix Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chaosophy is a groundbreaking introduction to Guattari's theories on "schizo-analysis": a process meant to replace Freudian interpretation with a more pragmatic, experimental, and collective approach rooted in reality.
Unlike Freud, Guattari believes that schizophrenia is an extreme mental state induced by the capitalist system itself, which keeps enforcing neurosis as a way of maintaining normality.
This is just another glimpst at the leaps of thought made by this brilliant thinker, far too often neglected by his friend and often co-author Gilles Deleuze.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/external-search?search-type=ss&tag=duchs-20&keyword=1570270198&mode=books   (975 words)

  
 Félix Guattari
Guattari wuchs unter relativ gesicherten Verhältnissen einem Arbeitervorort von Paris auf war früh den Ideen der institutionellen Pädagogik beeinflusst und um 1950 die damals in einem ungestümen befindliche Psychiatrie als sein Fach.
Ebenfalls mit Deleuze zusammen gründete er die Zeitschrift chimères die sich wie schon die Recherches neben der Philosophie und der Psychiatrie Mathematik der Ethnologie der Psychoanalyse der Architektur Erziehung usw.
Das große Thema von Félix Guattari und der theoretische Hintergrund für die bedeutende die er in der anti-psychiatrischen Bewegung spielte war die Frage der Subjektivität: "Wie lässt sich erzeugen für sich ergreifen anreichern und neu erfinden und zwar in einer Weise sich mit den in Veränderung begriffenen Werte-Universen machen lässt?
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Felix_Guattari.html   (354 words)

  
 Deleuze and Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During their lives, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were two of France's most prominent thinkers, and their work continues to be a vital and influential part of critical theory.
Readers unfamiliar with Deleuze and Guattari will gain a broad sense of their work from these pages; specialists will discover new and different methods of understanding the contributions of these writers.
The essays map out a set of applications that, rather than explain Deleuze and Guattari, aim to extend and reinvent their thought in new and "real life" domains, from cinema to the Gulf War, from quantum mechanics to the L.A. riots, and from Israel's deportation of Palestinians to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's masochism.
www.upress.umn.edu /Books/k/kaufman_deleuze.html   (301 words)

  
 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
But Christianity has never been an ideology; it's a very specific organization of power that has assumed diverse forms since the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, and which was able to invent the idea of international power.
FELIX GUATTARI: It's the same thing in traditional political structures.
One finds the old trick being played everywhere again and again: a big ideological debate in the general assembly and questions of organization reserved for special commissions.
www.generation-online.org /p/fpdeleuze7.htm   (5319 words)

  
 What Is Philosophy?; ; Gilles Deleuze with Félix Guattari
His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy.
Deleuze and Guattari differentiate between philosophy, science, and the arts, seeing as means of confronting chaos, and challenge the common view that philosophy is an extension of logic.
Félix Guattari, a practicing psychoanalyst in Paris until his death in 1992, collaborated with Deleuze on four books, including Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023107/0231079893.HTM   (287 words)

  
 ARP | The Party Without Bosses
The former metalworker and trade union leader Lúis Inácio ‘Lula' da Silva - known to everyone as Lula - was elected president of Brazil in late 2002 in his fourth attempt since founding the Workers' Party in 1980.
The Party Without Bosses features a discussion between Lula and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari that took place in the heady days after the birth of the Workers' Party.
This is a timely and engagingly idiosyncratic introduction to the early thinking of Lula, the man who may represent a rebirth of southern radicalism in the era of globalization.
www.arbeiterring.com /featured/pwb.html   (240 words)

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