taken from Blackout
The following discussion with Félix Guattari took place in his apartment in Paris. With the help of a number of friends, I had prepared a set of questions, and had contacted him to see if he might be available to answer some of them.\1 He responded immediately, ...
Anti-Ödipus, body-without-organs, deleuze/guattari, desiring machines, guattari, machines, marxism, mille plateaux, Molecular Revolution, non-technology, pragmatic
Félix Guattari is widely discussed among philosophers, particularly feminists and specialists in ecology and technology. But in the Anglophone world, political organisers tend to ignore him. In part this is due to academic paywalls and university strictures confining his work, but the problem goes further: the stylistic conservatism of so ...
Anti-Ödipus, autonomy, Lacan, organisation, psychoanalysis, social movement
Desiring machines make us an organism; but at the very heart of this production, the body suffers from being organized in this way, from not having some other sort of organization, or no organization at all.
– Gilles Deleuze/Fritz Guattari, Anti-Oedipus
There comes a moment in their great work Anti-Oedipus ...
Anti-Ödipus, body of death, body-without-organs, capital, capital fixe, deleuze/guattari
