• War/Spasmere-reading Plan for the world

    War/Spasme
    re-reading Plan for the world

    According to Freud the Unconscious is a production that is rooted in the past (the family’s intricacies, the infant’s experience, memories and removal of past experiences). The essential move of Guattari consisted in reversing the Unconscious toward the future. Desire in the place of memory. “The Freudian Unconscious is inseparable from a society attached to…

  • New Translation of Félix Guattari’s Seminar “Les Quatres Inconscients 13/01/1981”

    Original source: http://1libertaire.free.fr/Guattari10.html.  Translated by Taylor Adkins, 4/12/2020 Félix Guattari: I am always under a little pressure from M., who asks as frequently as possible for some examples. On the other hand, my concern would be to try to delve deeper into a certain number of theoretical themes. I will try to combine things: I…

  • Introduction: Logos or Abstract Machines? (part 1)

    Does the unconscious still have something to say to us? We have saddled it with so much that it seems to have resolved to keep silent. For a long time it was believed to be possible to interpret its messages. A whole corporation of specialists worked away at this task. Nevertheless, the results were hardly…

  • “This world of wild production and explosive desire” – The Unconscious and the Future in Felix Guattari

    … In this sense the horrible final scene of Janice and UIQ merged in her body and unable to enunciate any stable subjective position, even to a point beyond death, is not a cautionary tale warning us back from the edge, but a kind of realism showing us the utterly other future offered by schizoanalysis,…