| A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari Contributor(s): Massumi, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262631431 ISBN-13: 9780262631433 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 91-30392 |
| Series: Mit Press |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Massumi, Brian: - Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Montréal. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation and A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press). |