Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis Eugene W. Holland
Publisher: Routledge

Bolo'bolo - anarchist infoshop and vegan café, 76 Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa, Dear all,Please join us on Wednesday the 15th of May for a short film and talk on the ideas and relevance of Deleuze and Guattari! Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980) in which they developed schizoanalysis. It was in the aftermath of 1968 that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus (1972), which Michel Foucault described as "an introduction to the non-fascist life" in his preface to the book. Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. What is it that makes the work of these two Frenchmen - delineated in books like 'Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia', 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies', 'Chaosmosis' and 'Difference and Repetition' - so compelling for so many people? Download Deleuze and Guattaris Anti Oedipus Introduction to Schizoanalysis – This Book Saved My Life PDF Summary: Eugene W. Anti-Oedipus has four major parts the first part is an account of Deleuze and Guattari's materialist psychiatry; the second is a critique of Freud's Oedipus complex, the third is a rewriting Marx's philosophy of history using the new language of materialist psychiatry and the fourth section is about Deleuze and Guattari's new analytic endeavor, Schizoanalysis. Of special interest to me is Christian Kerslake's Deleuze About Freud as deterritorialising desire from need (analogously to Luther and Adam Smith) Yes, Eugene Holland makes a convincing case for reading Anti-Oedipus on this basis in his Introduction to Schizoanalysis. The French philosopher Vincent Descombes once described Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and Lyotard's Libidinal Economy as manifestations of what he called “mad black Hegelianism”. (Via Continental Philosophy) A number of texts on Deleuze and by Deleuze/Deleuze-Guattari are now available online through Fark Yaralari's blog. The discussion of machinic mapping versus representational tracing in the opening plateau of A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari claim that schizoanalysis, or rhizomatics, or whatever you want to call it, is itself a praxis, a doing. Overcoding is first of all a linguistic .. The western The concluding piece of Anti-Oedipus is an introduction to Schizoanalysis. In December of 1980, in the opening remarks of a seminar that would run throughout the decade, Guattari wondered aloud if the time was finally ripe to leave behind a strictly critical approach: that of the Anti-Oedipus. Working along similar lines, Deleuze and Guattari use the concept of overcoding to describe the process whereby singular human actions are integrated to dominant social structures.