The Reinvention of Social Practices : Essays on Félix Guattari

The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Félix Guattari's thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters, ranging across an alternative ‘skateboard’ school, informatic subjugations, urban ecological dilemmas, drug subcultures, and countercultures. Gary Genosko, the leading English interpreter of Guattari, expands upon Guattari’s conception of schizoanalysis as a transformative process of critical self-modelling that leads to the creation of new maps of existence, highlighting an interpretive dream pragmatics, a peripatetic psychiatric practice, a rethinking of epilepsy, and a post-media vision of digital interfaces beyond the keyboard. The folds of Guattari’s collaborations with Gilles Deleuze and Antonio Negri are explored, and his philosophical friendship with Franco Bifo Berardi is brought into focus. The Reinvention of Social Practices Contents Foreword: On Genosko’s Method Part I: In the Social Field 1 Transversality of the Oasis Skateboard Factory Alternative School 2 Informatic Striation in Indigenous Canada and Australia 3 Promises of the Post-Media Era Part II: Passages of Desire 4 In This Sleep: A Dream Pragmatics for David Wojnarowicz 5 The Unpaid Bills of Desire 6 Black Holes of Drugs and Politics Part III: Criss-Crossing Paths 7 Guattareuze & Co. 8 Do It! Negri and the Yippies 9 Epilepsy, Speed, and Affect 10 Micropolitics of Hope Part IV: Search for a Method 11 The Search for Non-Meaning 12 Dissident Organ: The Three Billion Perverts Issue of Recherches 13 For a Transdisciplinary Metamethodology Afterword: Post-Media Singularities Index About the Author In this major new work, Gary Genosko, the world's leading English interpreter of Guattari, offers critical methodological reflections and applications that bring to life Guattari's thought in contemporary social contexts. The volume explores his collaborations with Deleuze and Negri, and brings into focus his friendship with Franco Bifo Berardi.