Guattari Reframed Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

by Elliott, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781780762333
• ISBN10: 178076233X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practicing psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. Employing the language of visual culture and concrete examples drawn from it, this book introduces and reassesses the major concepts developed throughout Guattari's writings, asserting his significance as a revolutionary philosopher and cultural theorist and invites the reader to transform both their understanding of Guattari, and their lives through his ideas.

Author Biography

PAUL ELLIOTT is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Worcester and the author of Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Guattari De-leuzed * How to Critique your Milieu * The Clinical Milieu- Transversality * The Cultural Milieu - The Molar and the Molecular * The Political Milieu- Micropolitics * How to Make Yourself a War Machine * The Machine * Schizoanalysis * Faciality * The Refrain * How to Think Chaosophically * Molecular Revolution * Cinematic Desiring Machines * Ecosophy * Conclusion