In 1976, the Basque country was restless— certainly on the Spanish side of the border, where ETA,1 the Basque separatist movement, was engaged in an armed struggle against the powers of Madrid. Félix Guattari was dreaming of building a federation …
Félix Guattari & The “Molecular Revolution”: Italy, Germany, France
According to Freud the Unconscious is a production that is rooted in the past (the family’s intricacies, the infant’s experience, memories and removal of past experiences). The essential move of Guattari consisted in reversing the Unconscious toward the future. Desire …
Felix Guattari was a modernist. He not only liked a lot of modernist artists, but his ‘aesthetic paradigm’ found its generative diagram in modern art. The most important aspect of this diagram was its insistenceon the production of the new, …
How does one begin to broach the question of linkage, passage, and reflexivity to be found in the theories and practices of anarchism, the radical post-psychoanalysis of Felix Guattari, and the ontological framework that has been ushered in the necessity …
E.V.: Ernst Häckel definierte die Ökologie als „die Wissenschaft der Beziehungen der Organismen mit der äußeren Welt und ihren Existenzbedingungen“. Was nennst du „Ökosophie“? F.G.: Der Begriff der Ökologie ist eklektisch. Er umfasst sehr heterogene Realitäten, was übrigens seinen Reichtum …
taken from: https://illwilleditions.com/the-saved-commune/ MARCELLO TARÌ In the darkness of our lives, there is not one place for Beauty. The whole place is for Beauty. -René Char, Hypnos It began like this When Josep Rafenell i Orra suggested I participate in the Care Practices …
Original Source: https://www.revue-chimeres.fr/IMG/pdf/810210.pdf Translated by Taylor Adkins 7/22/20 F : Freud’s first topographical theories were quite science-based, neurophysiological; then, along the way, these models become quasi-anthropomorphic; the second topographical theory—the ego that struggles with the id and the grimacing personage …
Original source: http://1libertaire.free.fr/Guattari10.html. Translated by Taylor Adkins, 4/12/2020 Félix Guattari: I am always under a little pressure from M., who asks as frequently as possible for some examples. On the other hand, my concern would be to try to delve …
New Translation of Félix Guattari’s Seminar “Les Quatres Inconscients 13/01/1981”
If it is true chat abstract machines arise neither from the subject-object phenomenological couple, nor the set-subset logical couple, and consequently escape from the semiological triangle denotation representation-signification, then how do we conceive the possibility of saying anything about them? …
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 …
Pragmatic/Machinic: Discussion with Félix Guattari [by Charles J. Stivale]
… 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 …
Ultimately, one escapes from the structuralist impasse by recognizing that an effect of meaning only has repercussions at the level of the signified in so far as potentialities of subjective action are liberated, once there is a breach in the …