… 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
How Many Breakdowns For Every Breakthrough?
In the December of 1968, Maurice Blanchot issued a warning that was to be repeated in the years to come: “May, a revolution by idea, desire, and imagination, risks becoming a purely ideal and imaginary event if this revolution does
Au Revoir Aux Enfants… de Mai! (Abstract)
Félix Guattari is well-known for his philosophical works, co-authored with Gilles Deleuze. However, his early work has only become available in the Anglophone world recently. Guattari’s earlier inheritance from Trotskyism and from Lacanian psychoanalysis presents an important backdrop to his
Félix Guattari: Origins in Trotskyism and Psychoanalysis
Guattari was dreaming of building a federation of regional protest movements, which could open up secondary fronts and weaken the Nation-State. Despite his extensive network of contacts, he never managed to realize this perilous project, which was located on the
Guattari & Italy’s “Hot Autumn”
Liveblogging reading Felix Guattari’s book LINES OF FLIGHT, translated by Andrew Goffey. The unconscious, for Guattari, is “structured” like a multiplicity of modes of semiotisation. This hypothesis contains in germ Bruno Latour ‘s multiple modes of existence, which are also
GUATTARI “LINES OF FLIGHT”: the hypothesis of modes of semiotisation (1 & 2)