a recent essay published with Lundi Matin (#369, 06/02/2023). On the desire to smash time Why is life confined to its biological temporality (work time, the cycle of expenditure and recuperation, exhaustion and consumption) unliveable in the strict sense? Why …
I started reading Félix Guattari in 1974. I was in a barracks in southern Italy, when military service was compulsory for young men of sound mind and body, but serving the country soon irritated me, and I was looking for …
The quilting point was introduced in Jacques Lacan’s 1956 seminar on psychoses. He defined the quilting point as a kind of „anchor“ or „button“ that stitches together the flux of signification. We can understand this in both a general and specific …
Felix Guattari: After a systematic attack (at least I think so) on psychoanalysis, Gilles Deleuze and I began asking ourselves about the linguistic and semiotic conceptions underlying formations of power in psychoanalysis, in the university, and in general. A sort …
The book Anti-Oedipus, by the French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, has an interesting insight about three types of social formation and their registration surfaces: the primitive society where all is inscribed on land, the bodies are registered on …
… In the context of science fiction studies Guattari’s interest in Cyberpunkoffers an alternative to Frederic Jameson’s dismissal of the genre as failing to offer anything more than an uncritical celebration of late-capitalism’s technological ubiquity. In fact Guattari offers hisown …
What is the relationship between machine and structure? What is it that differentiates a line of flight from becoming a pure line of death? Now, however unhelpful as it may seem, a perfectly adequate to answer to these questions would …
The unlikely parable that Xenophon relates between Socrates and their mutual friend Aristippus of Cyrene serves as a lead in to the subject of this post. Socrates had observed his friend Aristippus for some time and felt that the young …
… In this sense the horrible final scene of Janice and UIQ merged in her body and unable to enunciate any stable subjective position, even to a point beyond death, is not a cautionary tale warning us back from the …
To continue from our conclusions regarding the question of what it would mean to love as a communist, we begin from the idea that abolition is what necessary binds communism as real movement to problems encountered in the life of …
In einem Experiment des Wissenschaftlers Brian Knuston von der Stanford Universität geht es um die Untersuchung der Relation Wunsch und neurochemische Komposition des mennschlichen Gehirns und den daraus folgenden Möglichkeiten, die bei Schizophrenen fehlende libidinale Motivation, die zu keinem optimalen …