The Guattari Reader, compiled by Gary Genosko has a number of topical essays, for instance, "Subjectivities for Better or Worse," "Postmodernism and Ethical Abdication" "A Liberation of Desire" "Capitalistic Systems Structures and Processes (With Eric Alliez)" And "Communist Propositions (With Antonio Negri)" All deal with the re-formation of ( Read more... )

Every time I read Marx's Grundrisse it becomes obvious that D&G knew were communists ( Read more... )

How does the multitude take action against collective capital? With the recent Wall Street bailout it's apparent that the state's function is to maintain a steady flow of capital. If that means socialize a mode of production the actions may hurt capitalism in the short term, but in the long term collective capital always comes out on top ( Read more... )

I don't give a damn about secondary literature on D&G. Its pretentious. That said. Anyone who wants to write anything worthwhile regarding the ongoing economic crisis and D&G feel free. I think I handled that with the last post... but it seems like the readership of this board has dropped off considerably since it started a few years ago. Nixon is ( Read more... )

(I know you learn about this in High School, but most people are too dumb at that age to know the vast ignorance of Nixon! This guy had BALLS OF STEEL ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me as I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra a few days ago. The type of "Schizophrenia" D&G are discussing is a resistant, revolutionary subject. Somewhere in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (please if someone knows exactly where that would be interesting to post) Nietzsche says, and I'm paraphrasing, "Anyone who does not choose an agreeable ( Read more... )

I posted this on my journal, but this is something that might be of interest to this discussion board as well... "The Foucault Tribunal" from 1999. Check it out!
http://www.foucault.de/

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What do you folks make of the rather odd illustrations and diagrams on p.282? I can't make heads or tails of it, but by god it must be important because its depicted on the back cover of my edition. What gives?

Since I'm doing my diss. loosely based on Felix Guattari, everything I seem to read reminds me of something in one of his books. I'm infatuated with Chaosmosis at the moment, but I've been reading up on Zen Buddhism. It seems that D&G are like a little theory Buddha's within the continental tradition. And its really interesting because, as I've ( Read more... )