Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a major text of French poststructuralist thought by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Made up of the two volumes Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, it articulates a new way of doing both philosophy and psychoanalysis that insists on the concrete relevance and transformative potential of the disciplines for day-to-day life. Matthew Sweet is joined by Henry Somers-Hall, Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London and editor of A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy; Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Woman's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University; and Ian Parker, practicing psychoanalyst and managing editor of the Annual Review f Critical Psychology.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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0:37.1	On this edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast,
0:39.7	we're hanging out with two wild and crazy guys of 1970s French theory,
0:44.9	those revolutionary lads, Gilles de Lures and Felix Guattari.
0:49.0	Gone now, but their ideas, they're still crazy after all these years.
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1:34.2	It's 1969 and something beautiful is about to happen.
1:41.4	Something beautiful and strange and radical and hardcore and quite possibly mad and very nearly
1:48.6	incomprehensible two men are going to meet delours and guattari jill and felix one's a philosopher
1:56.8	who like spinosa and doesn't cut his fingernails, the others are Lacanian psychoanalyst,
2:02.4	who went to the barricades in Paris in the spring of 1968 on a motorbike, and wants more of that,
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