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Liminal Subjectivity and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm of Félix Guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) 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)

Felix Guattari 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)

Guattari, culturele antropologie, en het einde van het Westers subject Laten wij uit Guattari's werk een typerend citaat nemen: 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. www.shikanda.net /general/gen3/guattari/felix.htm   (9284 words)

Ch. 2 Deleuze and Guattari A persistent theme of Guattari’s work is the necessity for challenging the expectations and assumptions of conventional psychiatry and psychoanalysis which set up a model of ‘normal’ human activity counterpoised a subnormal or schizoid subject unable to be integrated into conventional social relations. Guattari was always insistent on the underlying reality of psychic or unconscious structures and thus of the need to examine the manner by which unconscious forces would be harnessed in the cause of the ‘workers struggle’. For Deleuze and Guattari, as for Castoriadis, ‘class consciousness’ is a cover for the elaboration of a strategy in which ‘representatives’ of the oppressed are able to substitute themselves and their interests for those of the latter who in turn are said to be able to develop only a ‘trade union consciousness’. homepage.ntlworld.com /simon.tormey/books/DG.html   (10297 words)

Postmodern Theory - Chapter 3: Deleuze and Guatari Deleuze and Guattari have been political militants and perhaps the most enthusiastic of proponents of a micropolitics of desire that to precipitate radical change through a liberation of desire. Guattari is a practicing psychoanalyst who since the 1950s has worked at the experimental psychiatric clinic, La Borde. In addition, Deleuze and Guattari's willingness to champion the liberation of bodies and desire stands in sharp contrast to Foucault's sympathies to the Greco-Roman project of mastering the self. www.gseis.ucla.edu /faculty/kellner/pomo/ch3.html   (944 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. Guattari opens the interview by asking Lula about the Brazilian political situation, and the two discuss the growing organization of the Brazilian working class. 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)

SRB Editorial 1(2) Guattari brought with him a practical experience of institutional psychoanalysis, and a strong sense of the primacy of group psychology versus individual psychology, and thus of the political stakes of psychoanalysis, and the psychic stakes of State and institutional politics. Deleuze and Guattari "speak of machines to suggest that the unconscious is less a theatre than a factory, and to convey a positive, dynamic sense of the cosmos without falling into religious or anthropomorphic vitalism" (92). Deleuze and Guattari's major goal seems to be to propose a structuration that does not work by way of the hierarchy of a self-sufficient law over a subordinate material (as in the rule of the laws of signifisatlon over sonic or graphic signifying material) but instead abolishes such an opposition. www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/nomad.html   (4196 words)

Stivale, Machine at the Heart of Desire (Works & Days 2.2 [1985]: 63-85) Guattari then defines the opposition between subject-groups and subjugated groups \4 as "that of a subjectivity whose work is to speak, and a subjectivity which is lost to view in the otherness of society" (MR 14). Guattari's seemingly far-out, galactic discourse of "cosmic fluxes" is nothing less than an attempt to describe modes of analysis, of politics, of aesthetics, which as yet have no basis for description since their practice is in the very process of creation. Guattari thus proposes a "semiotic option," the "logical" result of liberating signifying semiotics from the despotism of signifiers and of unleashing "intensive multiplicities" through a semiotics of *n* articulations. www.langlab.wayne.edu /CStivale/StivalePapers/MachineHeartDesire1985.html   (6099 words)

Eric Alliez - The Signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy? - Reviewed by John Protevi, ... For Alliez, Deleuze and Guattari are engaged in the attempt "to sketch a programme of physical ontology up to the task of superseding the opposition between 'physicalism' and 'phenomenology' by integrating the physico-mathematical phenomenology of scientific thought into a superior materialism founded on a general dynamics" (36). Be that as it may, Alliez will note the rapprochement of epistemology and ontology attendant upon Deleuze and Guattari's position when he writes: "the act of knowing tends to coincide with that act that generates the real" (36). Deleuze and Guattari's term here for the creative milieu of the material subject is "brain," so that while the major reference of this chapter is to Whitehead, there are no less interesting references to Varela, Simondon, Ruyer, and Fichte. ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=3701   (1763 words)

Politics and Culture Guattari's previously unknown interview of Lula is an indispensable discussion of the difficulties in creating an effective resistance against new forms of oppression. Guattari and Lula face problems of organization and representation as they attempt to figure out how to affect either global or local change when such a distinction is becoming more and more eroded by internationalist bodies. The Guattari that emerges in this text is a Guattari that is already thinking about the problem of rhizomatic political formations, a Guattari that is already running against the effective limit of his radical psychoanalysis to address globalist problems. aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/printer_page.cfm?key=342   (2395 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)

Hanjo Berressem: Folding - Text | guattari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) In this context, Guattari sees in a hypertextual tought a possibility to regain multiplicity: “The informational lines of hypertext can recover a certain dynamic polymorphism and work in direct contact with referent Universes which are in no way linear” (49).¶In the 90s, however Guattari goes again a step further than the hypertext theoreticians. The non-sequentiality of a continuous text [on the level of the signifier] is supplemented by a non-linearity, for instance in the choice of foldings [and this means a mathematical non-linearity]. According to Guattari, thought will change qualitatively in the new medial surroundings: “the junction of informatics, telematics, and the audiovisual will perhaps allow a decisive step to be made in the direction of interactivity, towards a post-media era and, correlatively, an acceleration of the machinic return of orality” (97). www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/englisch/berressem/docs/erfurt/guattari.html   (431 words)

Deleuze and Guattari: Notes on Towards a Minor Literature According to Deleuze and Guattari, “the first characteristic of a minor literature in any case is that in it language is affected with a high coefficient of deterritorialization” (16). According to Deleuze and Guattari, the ‘minor literature’ maps the passage of this deterritorialization; as such, it is a literature of the people; as such, it is also thoroughly political. Deleuze and Guattari explain that the four languages in the tetralinguistic model differ according to spatiotemporal location: “vernacular is here; vehicular language is everywhere; referential language is over there; mythic language is beyond” (23). www.umass.edu /complit/aclanet/janadele.htm   (1158 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. Guattari is a great thinker and in many ways has been overshadowed by Deleuze. One does not need to be familiar with Guattari or contemporary French philosophy to gain something from this book. www.epinions.com /book-review-6F98-8310A10-395E7175-prod4   (336 words)

The Mediations of Everyday Life Thus the function of war in oral societies is not to win hegemony but rather "to assure the permanence of the dispersion, the parceling, the atomization of groups" which, as Deleuze and Guattari state, valorizes the smooth space of difference over and against the striated space of identity. It is in league with such a question that this essay proceeds, arguing that this becomes possible only with the decline of the Paleolithic era and the rise of the Neolithic as the immediacy of primary orality is replaced with the abstractions of primary literacy as the dominant code of civilization. This is precisely what I intend to do in the course of this essay through my own critique, which I develop with the assistance of the work of Ian Angus and Hakim Bey and their respective concepts of comparative media theory and immediatism. www.geocities.com /ringfingers/reembedding.html   (3283 words)

rhizomatic This approximate coincident emergence in English of Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome model and Gibson’s cyberspace metaphor in 1983/1984 means that these years may well serve as an important marker in the history of ideas about the rhizomatic nature of cyberspace. 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. www.thing.net /~rdom/ecd/rhizomatic.html   (11966 words)

Dialogic: Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus Guattari’s background as a radical psychiatrist is also very important. By insisting that the machine is not a metaphor Deleuze and Guattari move away from a representational model of language. Guattari later re-emphasizes the importance of this attempt to recognize the falsity of the division of human/nature: dialogic.blogspot.com /2006/01/deleuze-and-guattari-anti-oedipus.html   (5127 words)

Long Sunday: The Becoming-Partisan of Thought: Fragments on Schmitt and Deleuze/Guattari Here I realize my reading may be contested and is not standard in the blogosphere, but let it be said that Deleuze and Guattari in their collaborative work show that the micropolitical is not resistance qua resistance as most people tend to suggest in blog commentary. So when Deleuze and Guattari employ the Bergsonian binaries we must distinguish what is a friend and what is enemy, but not to a State. This is the addition that Deleuze and Guattari make to the concept of the political, in this odd and experimental reading I’m employing here, rather than the State it is life that becomes the plane upon which the distinctions are made. www.long-sunday.net /long_sunday/2006/06/the_becomingpar.html   (1732 words)

Earthquake The narrative form is itself as important as the specific open-endedness of Deleuze and Guattari's typology. Deleuze and Guattari several times refer to 'speed' as though that were the only quality of becoming. One explanation for this strategy may be that Deleuze and Guattari, like so many before, tend to adopt the standpoint of the producer of the artwork - to whom, as they imagine, the work must be a thing - whereas I believe that to those of us who experience artworks they are (more like) events. www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/21/sd_earthquake.html   (3227 words)

How (not) to Become Plant By: Miranda Morris For Deleuze and Guattari, Freud's analysis of Little Hans and his fear of going outdoors is problematic, as they feel it dramatically underestimates the complexity of Little Hans and his relationship with the horse he saw beaten and the driver of the horse and all the assemblages that surrounded that tableau. It is no wonder Deleuze and Guattari spend little time on becomings-vegetable in their essay: there are so few examples of real human/plant assemblages that are not Oedipalized and reduced to simple imitation. Leaving that aside for now, however, the explanation assumes that a plant would be more amenable to the "vibes" of this "normal" person, assuming that plants are not only humanlike in their emotional reactions, but even that they would have responses to (debatably essentialized) psychoanalytic frames of mind that are consistent with human responses. www.gwu.edu /~medusa/plant.html   (4343 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Deleuze and Guattari: Books: Ronald Bogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activist Felix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectual figures of their generation. This is the first book-length study of their works in English, one that provides an overview of their thought and of its bearing on the central issues of contemporary literary criticism and theory. From Deleuze's 'philosophy of difference' to Deleuze and Guattari's 'philosophy of schizoanalytic desire', this study traces the ideas of the two writers across a wide range of disciplines - from psychoanalysis and Marxist politics to semiotics, aesthetics and linguistics. www.amazon.co.uk /Deleuze-Guattari-Ronald-Bogue/dp/0415024439   (320 words)

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 98006844 French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari worked together extensively from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the resulting "intersections" of their different sensibilities and modes of knowing fueled powerful alternatives to Marxian and psychoanalytic orthodoxies. Yet readers approaching Deleuze and Guattari's works are often frustrated by the paucity or unfamiliarity of specific examples that might clarify their complex arguments. Drawing extensively from primary and critical sources to elucidate Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical contributions, Stivale reinvigorates their "two-fold thought" for use as an analytical tool in the humanities and social sciences. www.loc.gov /catdir/description/guilford051/98006844.html   (216 words)

Felix Guattari - The MIT Press Félix Guattari (1930-1992), political activist and anti-psychiatrist, met Gilles Deleuze in Paris in May 1969. Notes and journal entries document Guattari and Deleuze's collaboration on their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus. 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. mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/author/default.asp?aid=15636   (88 words)

Rhizome@Internet: Deleuze and Guattari Meet the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) (DELEUZE and GUATTARI, 8) It is not the points of contact between the strings and the puppet or the point of contact between the hands of the puppeteer and the wooden frame to which the strings are attached that are important when thinking rhizomatically, it is the lines between the points that are important. In the example used earlier it was stated that it is the "multiplicity of nerve fiber" and not the hands of the puppeteer that control the puppet. The last principle of the rhizome as put forth by Deleuze and Guattari is that the rhizome is "a map and not a tracing", and that this map has "multiple entryways." (DELEUZE and GUATTARI, 12) It has been mentioned earlier that there are many routes, or links, amongst computers on the Internet. www.socio.demon.co.uk /rhizome.html   (3629 words)

Deleuze and Guattari: Notes on Towards a Minor Literature Rather, a ‘minor literature’ is written in a major language, or as in the case of formerly colonized countries, the colonizers’ langue. The evolutionary potential of a ‘minor literature’ is written from the margins, deterritorializing the “fragile community” from the border from whence it is possible “to express another possible community and to forge the means for another consciousness and another sensibility” (17)]. At the close of the third chapter, Deleuze and Guattari suggest that making use of the “to make a minor or intensive use of it”), opposing “the oppressed quality of this language to its oppressive quality” and finding “points of nonculture or underdevelopment, linguistic Third World zones by which a language can escape” (26-27). www.umass.edu /complit/ogscl/jana/janadeleuzeguattari.htm   (1119 words)

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