New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty - Softcover

Guattari, Felix; Negri, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570272247 ISBN 13: 9781570272240

Publisher: Minor Compositions, 2010

Synopsis

"The project: to rescue 'communism' from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind's collective creation, communism has instead stifled humanity. We who see in communism the liberation of both collective and individual possibilities must reverse that regimentation of thought and desire which terminates the individual...." Thus begins the extraordinary collaboration between Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri, written at dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the crushing of the autonomous movements of the previous decade. Setting out Guattari and Negri diagnose with incisive prescience transformations of the global economy and theorise new forms of alliance and organisation: mutant machines of subjectivation and social movement. Prefiguring his collaboration with Michael Hardt, Negri and Guattari enact a singular hybridization of political and philosophical traditions, bringing together psychiatry, political analysis, semiotics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Against the workings of an increasingly integrated world capitalism, they raise the banners of singularity, autonomy, and freedom to search out new routes for subversion. This newly expanded edition includes previously untranslated materials and a new introduction by Matteo Mandarini.

About this title

About the Author:

Felix Guattari (1930--1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of "Anti-Oedipus "(with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including "The Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy", and "Soft Subversions."

Antonio Negri is a philosopher, essay writer, and teacher. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he has taught political science for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy, including "Marx beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies, The Porcelain Workshop: For a New Grammar of Politics" (Semiotext(e)), and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, "Empire", "Multitude", and "Commonwealth".

About this edition

• Publisher: Minor Compositions
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1570272247
• ISBN 13: 9781570272240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150