Anti-Oedipus
by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari · first published 2013
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Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. It changed the way I think about sanity and insanity, my model of the mind and motivational forces, the "big-picture" view of economics, how government works, how psychiatry works, and the way media…
on “What is the book that has completely changed your way of thinking?” ↗…5000 Years" David Graeber "Kokoro" Natsume Soseki "The Politics of Dialogical Imagination" Hirano Katsuya "History and Repetition" Karatani Kojin "The Structure of World History" Karatani Kojin "Anti-Oedipus" Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari "Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors" Nicholas Wade "Capital, Volume I" Karl Marx These books have been the most informative and thought-provoking…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗I'm currently picking my way through Deleuze & Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus". It's slow going, but I think this one's given me the most material to reflect on out of any book I've read so far.
on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?” ↗Definitely Guattari! Anti-Oedipus, which he wrote with Deleuze, is a trip and really wonderful. That's actually how I came across Reich. Guattari is interesting for pioneering schizoanalysis at the La Borde clinic. He's also one of the…
on “Wilhelm Reich on Pleasure and the Genesis of Anxiety (2021)” ↗The insistence on classifying Kaczynski as schizophrenic is disturbing. I'm reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and it resonates a lot with both how he was perceived and tried, and what his thoughts on modern society are (although there is nothing anti-technology in Anti-Oedipus, quite the opposite).
on “Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)” ↗Mead and Bateson's work in South East Asia was the basis for the title of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus[1]. I was curious and went through the footnotes of Anti-Oedipus and D&G say in Mead and Bateson's Balinese photographic survey that they describe a certain culture the mothers tease their sons when…
on “For God’s Sake, Margaret (1976)” ↗> Mead and Bateson's work in South East Asia was the basis for the title of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus[1]. Being fairly familiar with Delueze and Guattari's _Anti-Oedipus_, I don't think it's accurate to characterize the Mead-Bateson link as foundational. To that point, the title of the work is "Anti-Oedipus"…
on “For God’s Sake, Margaret (1976)” ↗…don't like. At the same time, I think the "nothing to see here" critics of the postmodernists are even more wrong. Deleuze/Guattari is a different vein which I never really explored. I had a copy of Anti-Oedipus many years ago but I never really read it. It surprised me when they re-emerged as a fashionable item in the English-speaking world.
on “Postmodernism and Its Impact (2017)” ↗…articulated the revolutionary aspect of non-linear capitalist growth, and often hailed as a proto-accelerationist). Though Deleuze/Guattari is perhaps the more important figure here, as (in their book Anti-Oedipus) they map out how capitalism is a deterritorializing force that scrambles away previous territories of tribe, nation, religion, family, and ideology. To be honest, Thiel's perhaps far more dangerous…
on “Just Be Rich” ↗https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/30/say-stupid-sh... By Félix Guattari, describing the process of writing Anti-Oedipus "You can explain everything away. I explain myself away. But to whom? You know … The question of the other. The other and time. I’m home kind of fucking around. Listening to my own words. Redundancy.…
on “Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell” ↗…& Horkheimer in their "Dialektik der Aufklärung" (Dialect of Enlightenment) and their individual works, in various essays within Marcuse's "Kultur & Gesellschaft", in Deleuze/Guattari's L'anti-Œdipe (Anti-Oedipus) as well as many similar scholars that can be described perhaps most broadly as successors to the "Left-Hegelians", among whom especially Feuerbach and Marx also stand out in their respective appraisals…
on ““Eurocentric modernist” thinking is exploding” ↗…what I personally did was read On the Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche. Then Discipline and Punish by Foucault. Then the Deleuze. I am less well read with Freud than I should be to truly engage with Anti-Oedipus, but Civilization and its Discontents is worthwhile. Same with Marx, many many disagree, but all assume some level of familiarity. Really, the best you can do is exactly what Massumi says about A Thousand…
on “Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” ↗An interesting coincidence, because right now I'm reading Anti-Oedipus, where Deleuze & Guattari argue against (nowadays ubiquitous) neurotic dependency on professionals, against capitalist society based on segregation with exclusion, and in favor of reversing the relationship…
on “Tools for Conviviality (1973) [pdf]” ↗Reminds me of the infamous quote from Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: “The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises…
on “When Everyone’s a Genius: A Few Thoughts on Speculation” ↗So what? Famously, Anna Karenina is about a woman who jumps in front of a train, why bother to read the other 863 pages. Anti-Oedipus [1] and especially A Thousand Plateaus [2] is about living in rarefied, futural spaces. Deleuze would be the first to be disgusted even at the faintest idea that his writing has any meaning whatsoever:…
on “What is Chess? What to think and how long for” ↗