The Guattari Effect

by Alliez, Eric; Goffey, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781441121974
• ISBN10: 1441121978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Guattari Effect brings together internationally renowned experts on the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist Félix Guattari with philosophers, psychoanalysts, sociologists and artists who have been influenced by Guattari's thought. Best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze, Guattari's own writings are still a relatively unmined resource in continental philosophy. Many of his books have not yet been translated into English. Yet his influence has been considerable and far-reaching. This book explores the full spectrum of Guattari's work, reassessing its contemporary significance and giving due weight to his highly innovative contributions to a variety of fields, including linguistics, economics, pragmatics, ecology, aesthetics and media theory. Readers grappling with the ideas of contemporary continental philosophers such as Badiou, ¿i¿ek and Rancière will at last be able to see Guattari as the 'extraordinary philosopher' Deleuze claimed him to be, with his distinctive radical ideas about the epoch of global 'deterritorialization' we live in today, forged within the practical contexts of revolutionary politics and the materialist critique of psychoanalysis.

Author Biography

Eric Alliez is Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK. His publications include Capital Times, translated by G. Abbeele (University of Minnesota Press, 1996). Andrew Goffey is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communications at Middlesex University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 8
Sorties
The Schizo Chaosmosis (1991)	p. 17
The Vertigo of Immanence: Interview with John Johnston, June 1992	p. 25
On Contemporary Art: Interview with Oliver Zahm, April 1992	p. 40
Critical and Clinical Protocols
Analysis, between Psycho and Schizo	p. 57
The Deterritorialized Unconscious	p. 68
Maps and Refrains of a Rainbow Panther	p. 84
Guattari and Anthropology: Existential Territories among Indigenous Australians	p. 99
Social and Political Connections
Guattari's Contributions to the Theory of Semiocapitalism	p. 115
Relaying a War Machine?	p. 134
Gilles-felix	p. 156
A Schizoanalytic Knight on the Chessboard of Politics	p. 172
Repression, Expression, Depression	p. 186
Ethico-aesthetic Effects
From Aesthetic Autonomy to Autonomist Aesthetics: Art and Life in Guattari	p. 205
Going to the Cinema with Felix Guattari and Daniel Stem	p. 220
Nothing Is Established Forever	p. 235
Félix Portraits 2010	p. 251
Conclusion: The Guattari-Deleuze Effect	p. 260
Contributors	p. 275
Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 287
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