By Brian Massumi

A User's advisor to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically sensible elaboration of the most important collaborative paintings of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. whilst learn in addition to its rigorous textual notes, the publication additionally turns into the richest scholarly therapy of Deleuze's whole philosophical oeuvre to be had in any language. ultimately, the handfuls of particular examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from modern inventive, medical, and renowned city tradition make the ebook a big, maybe even critical textual content inside present debates on postmodern tradition and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the overall name for 2 books released a decade aside. the 1st, Anti-Oedipus, used to be a response to the occasions of May/June 1968; it's a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" traces of psychoanalysis. the second one, one thousand Plateaus, is an try at a favorable assertion of this type of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari suggest instead to kingdom philosophy.Brian Massumi is Professor of Comparative Literature at McGill University.

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