Schizoanalytic Cartographies

by Félix Guattari, Andrew Goffey (Translator)

Schizoanalytic Cartographies represents Félix Guattari's most important later work and the most systematic and detailed account of his theoretical position and his therapeutic ideas.

Guattari sets out to provide a complete account of the conditions of 'enunciation' - autonomous speech and self-expression - for subjects in the contemporary world. Over the course of eight closely argued chapters, he presents a breathtakingly new reformulation of the structures of individual and collective subjectivity. Based on research into information theory and new technologies, Guattari articulates a vision of a humanity finally reconciled with its relationship to machines.

Schizoanalytic Cartographies is a visionary yet highly concrete work, providing a powerful vantage point on the upheavals of our present epoch, powerfully imagining a future 'post-media' era of technological development. This long overdue translation of this substantial work offers English-speaking readers the opportunity finally to fully assess Guattari's contribution to European thought.

Genres: Philosophy

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy. Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Reviews

[Harald Wenk]

in th age og neursciernce, thid ids bedry very important as cogrent, spinpozidstc view with zaking inti account thr gehral accepted "brain charts"

[H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Smart

[Till Sunfield]

I'm familiar with Guattari's collaborative as well as some of his solo-work, but I got majorly lost around Chapter 3 onwards. Might return to this, but as of now it feels like too grand of a commitment with rather diminishing returns.