Lines of Flight

For Another World of Possibilities

Felix Guattari

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781472507358
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474274937
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

As an analyst, philosopher and militant, Félix Guattari anticipated decentralized forms of political activism that have become increasingly evident around the world since the events of Seattle in 1999. Lines of Flight offers an exciting introduction to the sometimes difficult and dense thinking of an increasingly important 20th century thinker.

An editorial introduction by Andrew Goffey links the text to Guattari's long-standing involvement with institutional analysis, his writings with Deleuze, and his consistent emphasis on the importance of group practice - his work with CERFI in the early 1970s in particular. Considering CERFI's work on the 'genealogy of capital' it also points towards the ways in which Lines of Flight anticipates Guattari's later work on Integrated World Capitalism and on ecosophy.

Providing a detailed and clearly documented account of his micropolitical critique of psychoanalytic, semiological and linguistic accounts of meaning and subjectivity, this work offers an astonishingly fresh set of conceptual tools for imaginative and engaged thinking about capitalism and effective forms of resistance to it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also Available From Bloomsbury
• Title Page
• Contents
• Translator’s Introduction
• Part One Semiotic Subjection and Collective Equipment
• 1 The Unconscious is not Structured Like a Language
• 2 Where Collective Equipment Starts and Ends
• 3 The Capitalist Revolution
• 4 Bourgeoisie and Capitalist Flows
• 5 Semiotic Optional Matter
• 6 Equipment of Power and Political Facades
• 7 A Molecular Revolution
• 8 The Rhizome of Collective Assemblages
• 9 Micro-Fascism
• 10 Self-Management and the Politics of Desire
• Part Two Pragmatic Analysis of the Social Unconscious
• 11 Introduction to Principal Themes
• 12 Pragmatics, The Runt of Linguistics
• 13 Pragmatics: A Micropolitics of Linguistic Formations
• Part Three Example of a Pragmatic Component: Faciality Traits
• 14 On Faciality
• 15 The Hierarchy of Behaviour in Man and Animal
• 16 The Semiotics of the Grass Stem
• 17 The Little Phrase in Vinteuil’s Sonata
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright