A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia DEVIATIONS FROM DELEUZE AND GUATTARI

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A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" strains of psychoanalysis. The second, A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy. Contents Pleasures of Philosophy FORCE Round One Round Two Round Three Pause Round Four Pause Round Five Pause HABIT Muck Quarks & Company Pause Warm Water Burp Pause MONSTROSITY Becoming- Other The Revenge of the Same More of the Same Still More To Be Continued Notes Pleasures 9 to 18 19 to 24 FORCE 12 to 17 18 to 20 21 to 29 30 31 to 33 35 to 36 37 to 42 43 to 45 46 to 55 56 57 to 61 62 to 63 64 to 69 HABIT 3 to 11 12 to 21 22 to 27 28 to 33 34 to 39 40 to 44 45 46 to 52 53 to 54 55 56 to 61 62 to 67 68 to 70 71 to 73 74 MONSTROSITY 9 to 11 12 to 15 16 to 21 22 to 27 28 29 to 30 31 32 to 34 35 36 to 38 39 to 43 44 to 45 46 to 50 51 to 53 54 to 56 57 to 58 59 to 61 62 to 66 67 to 69 70 to 71 Works Cited Index