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Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents)

by Felix Guattari

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ISBN10: 1584350512
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Yes, I believe that there is a multiple people, a people of mutants, a people of potentialities that appears and disappears, that is embodied in social, literary, and musical events.... I think that we're in a period of productivity, proliferation, creation, utterly fabulous revolutions from the viewpoint of this emergence of a people. That's molecular revolution: it isn't a slogan or a program, it's something that I feel, that I live....
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Following Brazil's first democratic election after two decades of military dictatorship, French philosopher Fandeacute;lix Guattari traveled through Brazil in 1982 with Brazilian psychoanalyst Suely Rolnik and discovered an exciting, new political vitality. In the infancy of its new republic, Brazil was moving against traditional hierarchies of control and totalitarian regimes and founding a revolution of ideas and politics. Molecular Revolution in Brazil documents the conversations, discussions, and debates that arose during the trip, including a dialogue between Guattari and Brazil's future President Luis Ignacia Lula da Silva, then a young gubernatorial candidate. Through these exchanges, Guattari cuts through to the shadowy practices of globalization gone awry and boldly charts a revolution in practice.

Assembled and edited by Rolnik, Molecular Revolution in Brazil is organized thematically; aphoristic at times, it presents a lesser-known, more overtly political aspect of Guattari's work. Originally published in Brazil in 1986 as Micropolitica: Cartografias do desejo, the book became a crucial reference for political movements in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s. It now provides English-speaking readers with an invaluable picture of the radical thought and optimism that lies at the root of Lula's Brazil.

About the Author

Flix Guattari (1930-1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze), The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext(e)), and other books. Semiotext(e) has published the first two volumes of his complete essays, Chaosophy (1995) and Soft Subversions (1996), and will publish the final volume, Chaos and Complexity, in 2008.Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst, cultural critic, and curator who lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was a close collaborator of Guattari's during her exile in Paris from the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781584350514
Author:
Guattari, Felix
Publisher:
Semiotext(e)
Translator:
Clapshow, Karel
Translator:
Holmes, Brian
Editor:
Clapshow, Karel
Author:
Rolnik, Suely
Author:
Clapshow, Karel
Author:
Li, X.
Author:
Holmes, Brian
Author:
Guattiri, Felix
Author:
Guattari, F
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Public Policy - Cultural Policy
Subject:
Government - International
Subject:
History & Theory - General
Subject:
Psychoanalysis
Subject:
Identity (psychology)
Subject:
Brazil Politics and government 1964-1985.
Subject:
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Publication Date:
December 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
495
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in

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