The Guattari Effect

The Guattari Effect brings together internationally renowned experts on the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist Félix Guattari with philosophers, psychoanalysts, sociologists, anthropologists and artists who have been influenced by Guattari's thought. Best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze, Guattari's own writings are still a relatively unmined resource in continental philosophy. Many of his books have not yet been translated into English. Yet his influence has been considerable and far-reaching. This book explores the full spectrum of Guattari's work, reassessing its contemporary significance and giving due weight to his highly innovative contributions to a variety of fields, including linguistics, economics, pragmatics, ecology, aesthetics and media theory. Readers grappling with the ideas of contemporary continental philosophers such as Badiou, Žižek and Rancière will at last be able to see Guattari as the ‘extraordinary philosopher' Deleuze claimed him to be, with his distinctive radical ideas about the epoch of global ‘deterritorialization' we live in today, forged within the practical contexts of revolutionary politics and the materialist critique of psychoanalysis.

"The contributors—Éric Alliez, Andrew Goffey, Jean-Claude Polack, Peter Pál Pel-bart, Anne Querrien, Barbara Glowczewski, Gary Genosko, Isabelle Stengers, Antonio Negri, Anne Sauvagnargues, Franco ‘Bifo Beradi, Stephen Zepke, Raymond Bellour, Pascale Criton, Annie Ratti, as well as Guattari himself form a "collective assemblage of enuncia-tion" that re-animates the Guattarian corpus for a new generation...What can keep desire on a trajectory that will lead it beyond the plane of exploitation and commodification? What form(s) of desire should be de-sired? Looking to (looking at) Guattari is one way to begin to theoretically answer these questions. This perhaps simple point is literally and materially rendered in the pages of Rattis photo-art essay. The silence of these images speaks of what remains, and is yet to be said, in the name and in the spirit of Guattari. This is perhaps finally the most significant effect of Guattaris thought today: it spurs the desire to look again at Guattaris life, work, and legacy. The generosity of his texts invite us ‘to come back to it, not so as to conclude, but to start again. (Alliez, 260)" - Jonathan Fardy, Western University

The Guattari Effect brings together internationally renowned experts on the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist Félix Guattari with philosophers, psychoanalysts, sociologists, anthropologists and artists who have been influenced by Guattari's thought.

Best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze, Guattari's own writings are still a relatively unmined resource in continental philosophy. Many of his books have not yet been translated into English. Yet his influence has been considerable and far-reaching. This book explores the full spectrum of Guattari's work, reassessing its contemporary significance and giving due weight to his highly innovative contributions to a variety of fields, including linguistics, economics, pragmatics, ecology, aesthetics and media theory. Readers grappling with the ideas of contemporary continental philosophers such as Badiou, Žižek and Rancière will at last be able to see Guattari as the ‘extraordinary philosopher' Deleuze claimed him to be, with his distinctive radical ideas about the epoch of global ‘deterritorialization' we live in today, forged within the practical contexts of revolutionary politics and the materialist critique of psychoanalysis.

The Guattari Effect brings together internationally renowned experts on the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist Félix Guattari with philosophers, psychoanalysts, sociologists, anthropologists and artists who have been influenced by Guattari's thought.

Best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze, Guattari's own writings are still a relatively unmined resource in continental philosophy. Many of his books have not yet been translated into English. Yet his influence has been considerable and far-reaching. This book explores the full spectrum of Guattari's work, reassessing its contemporary significance and giving due weight to his highly innovative contributions to a variety of fields, including linguistics, economics, pragmatics, ecology, aesthetics and media theory. Readers grappling with the ideas of contemporary continental philosophers such as Badiou, Žižek and Rancière will at last be able to see Guattari as the ‘extraordinary philosopher' Deleuze claimed him to be, with his distinctive radical ideas about the epoch of global ‘deterritorialization' we live in today, forged within the practical contexts of revolutionary politics and the materialist critique of psychoanalysis.

Introduction \ Part 1 Sorties \ Chapter 1: The SchizoChaosmosis (1991) Félix Guattari \ Chapter 2: The Vertigo of Immanence Interview with John Johnston, June 1992, Félix Guattari \ Chapter 3: OnContemporary Art Interview with OliverZahm, April 1992,Félix Guattari \ Part 2 Critical and Clinical Protocols\ Chapter 4: Analysis, between Psycho and Schizo Jean-Claude Polack \ Chapter5: The Deterritorializsd Unconscious Peter Pál Pelbart \ Chapter 6: Mapsand Refrains of the Rainbow Panther Anne Querrien \ Chapter 7: Guattariand Anthropology: Existential Territories Among Indigenous Australians BarbaraGlowczewski \ Part 3 Social and Political Connections \ Chapter 8:Guattari's Contributions to the Theory of Semiocapitalism Gary Genosko \Chapter 9: Relaying a War Machine? Isabelle Stengers \ Chapter 10:Gilles-felix Antonio Negri \ Chapter 11: A Schizoanalytical Knight onthe Chessboard of Politics Anne Sauvagnargues \ Chapter 12: Repression,Expression, Depression Franco ‘Bifo' Berardi \ Part 4Ethico-aesthetic Effects \ Chapter 13: From Aesthetic Autonomy toAutonomist Aesthetics: Art and Life in Guattari Stephen Zepke \ Chapter14: Going to the Cinema with Félix Guattari and Daniel Stern Raymond Bellour\ Chapter 15: Nothing is EstablishedForever Pascale Criton \ Chapter 16: Félix Portraits 2010 Annie Ratti\ Conclusion : The Guattari-Deleuze Effect éric Alliez \ Contributors \ Bibliography\ Index