1st Edition

Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics

Edited By Thomas Jellis, Joe Gerlach, John-David Dewsbury Copyright 2019
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres. Increasingly recognised as a key figure in his own right, Guattari’s influence in contemporary social theory and the modern social sciences continues to grow. From the ecosophy of... Read more

Introduction  Part 1 Cartographies  1. Through a net darkly: spatial expression from glossematics to schizoanalysis  2. Mapping the Unconscious  3. Guattari’s incorporeal materialism: From individuation to aesthetics (and back again)  4. Metamodelizing the Territory:  On Teddy Cruz’s Diagrammatic Urbanism  5. Schizoanalytic Cartographies  6. Refrains of lost time: collapse, refrain, abstract  Part 2 Ecologies  7. The (Schizo)analysis of Value in the ‘Age of Innovation’  8. Ecosophy as an ethical mode of existence  9. Pathways to the Machinic Subject  10. Memorial persistence: a hurricane in twelve refrains  11. The Cosmic Flight of the Aerocene Gemini  Part 3 Micropolitics  12. Hitchhiking Guattari  13. Guattari and the Micropolitics of Cinema: The Desiring-Machines of Satoshi Kon  14. Reframing politics in art: from representational subjects to aesthetic subjectification  15. Communist Stratoanalysis  16. Transversal Geo-Politics | The Violence of Sound 

Biography

Thomas Jellis is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at Keble College.



 
Joe Gerlach is Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.




JD Dewsbury is Professor in Human Geography at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.