A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia

A User''s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze''s entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic scientific and popular urban culture make the book an important perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first Anti-Oedipus was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of state-happy Marxism and school-building strains of psychoanalysis. The second A Thousand Plateaus is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy.