Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought: Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze by Janell Wat

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Felix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". This title examines the writing of Felix Guattari, one of France's important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

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Félix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, one of the most influential works of post-structuralism. From the mid-1950s onward, Guattari exerted a profound yet often behind-the-scenes influence on institutional psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, radical politics and philosophy.Guattari's Diagrammtic Thought examines the writings that Guattari authored on his own, both before and during his collaboration with Deleuze, providing a startlingly fresh perspective on intellectual and political trends in France and beyond during the second half of the twentieth century. Janell Watson acknowledges the historical and biographical aspect of Guattari's writing and explores the relevance of his theoretical ideas to topics as diverse as the May 1968 student movement, Lacanian psychoanalysis, neo-liberalism, ethnic identity, microbiology, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, ecology, the mass media, and the subjective dimensions of information technology. The book demonstrates that Guattari's unique thought process yields a markedly Guattarian version of many seemingly familiar Deleuzean notions.

Author Biography

Janell Watson is Associate Professor of French at Virginia Tech University, USA. Her previous publications include Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust (CUP, 1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Schizoanalysis as Metamodeling 1. Lacan's Couch, Guattari's Institution: Accessing the Real 2. The Cosmic Psyche: Capitalism's Triangular Traps 3. An Energetics of Existence: Creative Quadrants 4. History as Machinic Phylum: Socio-political Schemas Afterword: From Cartography to Ecology Bibliography Index

Review

"This is an exacting explication of Guattari's key conceptual innovations over the course of his career. What emerges from the furious detail and clean disassembly of the nuts and bolts of schizoanalytic diagrams is an intellectual portrait of Guattari as a militant cartographer of a universe perfused with machines. Watson ingeniously reveals how Guattari hot-wired Lenin and Lacan for the wild ride he took into molecular revolution, the implications of which for emerging species of subjectivity we are only beginning to grasp." - Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair, Lakehead University, Canada

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A unique examination of the writing of Felix Guattari, one of France's most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

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Felix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, one of the most influential works of post-structuralism. From the mid-1950s onward, Guattari exerted a profound yet often behind-the-scenes influence on institutional psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, radical politics and philosophy. Guattari's Diagrammtic Thought examines the writings that Guattari authored on his own, both before and during his collaboration with Deleuze, providing a startlingly fresh perspective on intellectual and political trends in France and beyond during the second half of the twentieth century. Janell Watson acknowledges the historical and biographical aspect of Guattari's writing and explores the relevance of his theoretical ideas to topics as diverse as the May 1968 student movement, Lacanian psychoanalysis, neo-liberalism, ethnic identity, microbiology, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, ecology, the mass media, and the subjective dimensions of information technology. The book demonstrates that Guattari's unique thought process yields a markedly Guattarian version of many seemingly familiar Deleuzean notions. >

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"This is an exacting explication of Guattari's key conceptual innovations over the course of his career. What emerges from the furious detail and clean disassembly of the nuts and bolts of schizoanalytic diagrams is an intellectual portrait of Guattari as a militant cartographer of a universe perfused with machines. Watson ingeniously reveals how Guattari hot-wired Lenin and Lacan for the wild ride he took into molecular revolution, the implications of which for emerging species of subjectivity we are only beginning to grasp." & Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair, Lakehead University, Canada

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A unique examination of the writing of Felix Guattari, one of France's most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Details ISBN1847064671 Author Professor Janell Watson Short Title GUATTARIS DIAGRAMMATIC THOUGHT Series Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy Language English ISBN-10 1847064671 ISBN-13 9781847064677 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 194 Year 2009 Illustrations Yes Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Subtitle Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Series Number 63 UK Release Date 2009-03-08 NZ Release Date 2009-03-08 Translated from English Pages 228 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2009-03-08 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2009-03-07 We've got this

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