Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy

Constantin Boundas, one of Deleuzes foremost translators, disseminators and interpreters, has assembled a fine collection of essays exploring one of the most important questions of our time. Eco-philosophy extends well beyond exegesis and commentary to a radical transformation of philosophy by way of ecological thinking. The authors gathered in this volume include rising stars in Deleuze studies alongside established authors. This book will be important reading for anyone working in the environmental humanities. * Claire Colebrook, Professor of English, Philosophy, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University, USA * This important and timely book will be useful to both those familiar with the work of Guattari and Deleuze and those coming to the fields of schizoanalysis and ecosophy for the first time. It not only carefully examines the sources of both fields in Freud, Lacan and Marx and Guattaris engagements with anti-psychiatry (at the La Borde clinic) and political activism, but also explicitly and painstakingly adds environmental ecology to the social and psychological ecologies featured in Anti-Oedipus. Tracing the development of Guattaris work beyond the earlier collaborative work with Deleuze, it goes on to explore some of the implications of schizoanalysis and ecosophy for diverse practices in the theater, schooling, art and dream therapy, and ethics. The kind of careful and cogent explications of Guattaris contributions to theory, therapy, and activism found in these essays is long overdue. * Eugene W. Holland, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, USA * It is wonderful to have these new essays about Guattari's practice of psychoanalysis and the history of concepts and political controversies around it; readers of Guattaris theoretical work have been missing this, and this collection gives it to us. Beginning with Anne Querrien's fascinating reflections on the La Borde clinic in the 1960's, hearing testimony about the history of these lively debates (populated by Parisian Marxists, Catalan refugees, and feminist activists), is immensely helpful for understanding Guattaris extremely difficult philosophical writings. It is great to see Guattaris abstract conceptual apparatus tied back to clinical practices. * Jay Lampert, Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA *

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, a member of the Centre for the Study of Theory, History and Culture and an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (1993) and Deleuze and Philosophy (2006). His translations include Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (1990), Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity (1991). He is also the editor of The Companion to the Twentieth Century Philosophies (2007).

Introduction, Constantin V. Boundas, Trent University, Canada Part I 1. Anne Querrien, An Interview with Constantin V. Boundas 2. 'A Personal Testimony' Elizabeth Kouki, psychoanalyst at La Borde clinic 1976-1982 3. 'What is Schizoanalysis?' Jean Claude Polack, former psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at La Borde clinic, France 4. What is Ecosophy?' Manola Antonioli, cole Suprieure d Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France 5. 'Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy: Scales of History and Action' Anne Querrien and Andrew Goffey, (translated by Andrew Goffey), University of Nottingham, UK 6. 'Heterogenesis, Ecosophy and Dissent' Jean-Sebastien Laberge,University of Ottawa, Canada 7. 'Degrees of Freedom: Felix Guattaris Schizoanalytic Cartographies', Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne, Germany 8. 'The Desiring Machines do not die: Impersonal Death and Feeling of Eternity' Oleg Lebedev, Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belgium 9. 'Beyond the Lacanian Phallo-arborocentrism: the Phallus as a Rhizome and the Object a as a Desiring-machine', Charis Raptis, University of Athens, Greece Part II 10. 'For an Ecosophical Theater', Flore Garcin-Marrou, Lecturer in Theater and Visual Studies in the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurs, France 11. 'The Transversality of the Oasis Skateboard Factory Alternative School', Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada 12. 'The Production of an Anxiety Dream Space Machine', Eric Harper, psychotherapist, social worker and human rights activist, and Charity N. Mwaniki is the resident artist at NUMBI Arts, UK 13. 'The Relationship inside the Psychiatric Institution between the Clinic and the Politics of Emancipation according to Felix Guattari: The Experience of 18Up', Katerina Matsa, psychiatrist at the Health Network for Social Solidarity, Greece 14. 'Double Bind: On Material Ethics', Andrej Radman, TU Delft, The Netherlands Bibliography Index