Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Ecology

Hanjo Berressem is Professor of American Studies at the University of Cologne. He is the author of On the Gradual Contraction of Media in Movement (Bloomsbury, 2018), Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz's Fiction with Lacan (Northwestern University Press, 1998) and Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text (University of Illinois Press, 1992). He is co-editor of Near Encounters: Festschrift for Richard Martin (Peter Lang 1995) and several journal special issues.

This volume is a demanding but very rewarding reading of Félix Guattari’s multifaceted schizoanalytic thought—a unique and timely enrichment, in its scope and comprehensiveness, to the growing interpretive and critical literature surrounding the work of the La Borde clinic analyst and activist. Hanjo Berressem, having chosen Schizoanalytic Cartographies as his text-key to the explication of the entire work of Guattari, shows convincingly that analysis, philosophy, activism, as well as art and cultural criticism are different versions of Guattari’s ecology and explores fruitfully Guattari’s question, how to be adequate to the world, that is, how to develop an overall ecological attitude that would permeate every moment of our lives.

• Overture Introduction: Guattari and Ecology Ecogenesis Schizoanalytic Cartographies Ecosophical Times and Spaces Schizoanalytic Ecology Conclusion: Here and Now Bibliography