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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

1972 (French); 1977 (English)
Minneapolis

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This edition is the University of Minnesota Press reprint (1983) of the 1977 Viking Penguin translation by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane, with a preface by Michel Foucault and an introduction by Mark Seem. Anti-Oedipus inaugurated Deleuze and Guattari's two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia project, proposing that desire is not a theatre of lack but a productive, machinic process-and that psychoanalysis, far from liberating it, inscribes it within the familial triangle of Oedipus. The work situates schizophrenia as capitalism's decoded limit, tracing the historical socius from primitive territorial machines through despotic overcoding to capitalist axiomatics.

Michel FoucaultWrote the original preface, calling it an 'Introduction to the Non-Fascist Life' and a book of ethics as much as politics.
Fredric JamesonEngaged critically with its rejection of hermeneutics and its machinic ontology in postmodern theory.
Slavoj ŽižekCritiqued its dismissal of lack and the Symbolic, defending a Lacanian account of desire against schizoanalysis.
Manuel DeLandaExtended its assemblage theory and materialist ontology into social science and urban studies.
Rosi BraidottiDrew on its nomadic subject and desiring-machines for feminist posthumanist philosophy.
Franco 'Bifo' BerardiApplied its analysis of semiocapitalism and schizoanalysis to media theory and cognitive labor.

Anti-OedipusCapitalism and Schizophrenia

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

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