Deleuze ve Guattari'nin Anti-Ödipus'u: Okuyucu Rehberi

by Ian Buchanan, Fahrettin Ege (Translator), Hakan Erdogan (Translator)

Deleuze ve Guattari'nin ortak eseri Anti-Ödipus, yayınlandığı 1972 yılında politik tartışmaların içine bir bomba gibi düşer. Kitap, antropolojiden ekonomiye, psikanalizden siyaset teorisine bir dizi düşünsel alandaki kemikleşmiş kanılara karşı yürüttüğü polemiğin yanı sıra, yaşamın yeni olanaklarının yaratılmasına yönelik devrimci bir eserdir. Ian Buchanan, Anti-Ödipus'un bu özelliğini vurgular, 1968 ve sonrası dönemin canlı politik atmosferinin onu nasıl şekillendirdiğini gösterdikten sonra, oldukça karmaşık olan bu metni edebiyat, sinema ve güncel politikadan verdiği örneklerle okuyuculara sunar. Buchanan aynı zamanda, Žižek ve Badiou'ya verdiği çarpıcı yanıtlarla güncel felsefi tartışmalara katılır ve bugün Anti-Ödipus'un yazıldığı döneme göre çok daha önemli bir eser olduğunu savunur. Deleuze ve Guattari'nin Anti-Ödipus'u bir giriş veya açıklama olarak değil, sahnenin merkezini Marx'ın alması ve sınıf çatışması fikrinin canlandırılmasıyla politik hedefi açıkça devrimci olan bir okuma olarak ele alınmalıdır.

Genres: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction, Theory, France

232 pages, Paperback

First published April 5, 2008

About the author

Born in rural Western Australia, Buchanan grew up in the suburbs of Perth. He did his BA and PhD in the English and Comparative Literature program at Murdoch University, graduating in 1995. His PhD dissertation, entitled, "Heterology: Towards a Transcendental Empiricist Approach to Cultural Studies" attempted to fuse the work of de Certeau and Deleuze for the purposes of doing cultural analysis

Reviews

[Deep · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having once read Anti-Oedipus long before, Ian Buchanan's guide has really made it clear for me the need to reread it. By staying not only within the limits of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, but situating it in relation to the corpus of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Buchanan shows the basis of concepts that are difficult to grasp due to Anti-Oedipus esoteric writing. Concepts such as connective, disjunctive, and conjunctive syntheses (what Deleuze & Guattari refers to as énergie), and how these can be traced back to people like Daniel Paul Schreber. Further, Buchanan contextualizes Deleuze & Guattari in relation to contemporary theorists (most notably Fredric Jameson) and social issues, which is always welcome.

Ian Buchanan might at times presume the reader has knowledge in topics such as Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, anthropology, or critical theory. While it might (fairly) be argued that this undermines the book's claim to be a 'Guide', it does however allow one to judge what one needs to read beforehand to understand Deleuze & Guattari's text.

[Alexander · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not a reader's guide. It is, however, supplementary reading, best read after already having read A-O. It spends more time discussing contemporary texts - Jameson, Zizek, Arrighi - and (then) contemporary politics (Bush II) - than the text itself sometimes. Good for situating A-O in the contemporary milieu, but not as a guide to approach the text for the first time.

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can you tell i am losing my mind

[C. Varn · Rating 4 out of 5]

While Buchanan seems to be very interested in reconciling Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to classical Marxism as well as illuminating the break with Lacanian analysis embodied in Guattari's writing, this is still a strong introduction to Anti-Oedipus as well as exposition to the slight difference between the Deleuze and Guattari pairing with the prior work of Deleuze's alone. The expansion of Marx's analysis of currency to both economy of an individual's desire and to a way that capitalism works in total. Buchanan also does an excellent job of giving examples in which one can see a clear application to the principles in Anti-Oedipus, which can be an excellent way through a text's whose playful language can be maddening. Furthermore, the brief essay on some of the problematic interpretations and criticism of Anti-Oedipus is quite excellent in and of itself. While this is absolute no substitute for reading the text, it is a good supplement to the original work.

[Neal Spadafora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite as helpful as Holland’s guide to AO, but nonetheless compromised of several illuminating sections. The introduction is by far the best part of this book, as it situates AO in the aftermath of ‘68 and the mise en scene of contemporary French philosophy. Nonetheless, many of the analyses were drastically different than the common consensus on AO, which can be misleading for first time readers of AO. Overall, I’d recommend this introduction, but then I would turn to Holland’s book on AO (which also has a wonderful introduction).

[Nathaniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this probably could have stood to have another hundred pages or so of content (thus only four stars), but it was really useful for what it was — I'm not sure I would have gotten anything out of the Anti-Œdipe without this as a baseline, even if I still don't think I really understand it. but Buchanan helped me get enough substance out of the AO to be able to make theory jokes about it with my roommate who's been reading it along with me, so.

[Russell Mark Olson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best part about Buchanan's approach is to use practical examples. While reading AO, I found that I was interpreting the text into a kind of personal narrative in order to cope with the enigmatic prose. The examples Buchanan uses were fantastic benchmarks with which my own interpretations could bounce off of and return more distinct and articulate.

[Edward Healey]

as with most books by/on d and/or g there were moments where i was very confused and also moments where i felt like they had cracked my skull open and were reaching deep deep into my mind. understanding them is an osmotic process and i think i took a step forward but also need a break which is why partly why i reached for morning glory milking farm.

[风花 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still unclear even after reading this book😂

[Minäpäminä · Rating 2 out of 5]

hyvä yritys mut harhaili oudosti valaisematta

[Kunyi Li · Rating 4 out of 5]

helpful - but then this is one of those works that unfolds the need to read 10 more books.

Deleuze and Guattari's virtuosic reference game is sometimes a bit too supercilious with their expectation of you should grok what they are getting at with a single-line mention to some obscure literary work. Buchanan respects this style of D+G but made it more approachable by introducing more contemporary ephemera in pop TV movie culture and dutifully unpacks them in a more readable expository format that would satisfy D+G's motivations. He connects them to trendier thoughts by Zizek and other theorists that opened up future direction of exploration for me. I cannot speak to the validity or appropriateness of these references since I'm still working on the foundation of post-May 68 intellectual strands - but as a newbie I still grasped the points at least Buchanan drew on in this book.

Highly recommended before embarking on or while going through Anti-Oedipus. Though at a bare minimum, I recommend a bit of work done to grasp some Deleuzian ontology of difference and the anti-Platonic motivations in Difference and Repetition.

[Utku B. Demir · Rating 4 out of 5]

I decided to follow Buchanan’s Guide alongside my reread of AO.

I would describe it more as Buchanan’s meditations on AO than a traditional reader’s guide. That said, I can’t deny the benefit of the conceptual clarifications it offered. Using concrete examples always comes with the risk of a “loss of generality,” but I nonetheless appreciated the confirmation it provided regarding my understanding of some of D&G’s concepts.

All in all, I value Buchanan’s emphasis on the Marxist foundation of D&G’s project. It’s well delivered, especially considering how often this aspect seems to be mischaracterized in critiques. Still, there were moments when it felt like I was reading more Buchanan than D&G.

[Farzaneh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Half-way through reading D&G's Anti-Oedipus, I turned into this reader's guide and read it almost non-stop in a few days, Buchanan's writing is always generous with reader and brings the most sophisticated concepts down to earth... i loved the way he describes D&G's Anti-Oedipus as a revolutionary book by/through which D&G wanted to change society at any cost .... the book also includes a wonderful list of further readings at the end which helped me to better read /understand Freud.

[tJacksonrichards · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nowhere near approaching the granular details or background work necessary for explicating the crazy depths of AO. I found Eugene Holland's guide to ATP incredibly helpful, so I wish I'd gone with his AO guide instead of this one.

[Salah Y. · Rating 3 out of 5]

مدخل جيد بس قصير لكتاب صعب ومهم، استفدت منه كتير

[Sam]

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