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The Reinvention of Social Practices Gary Genosko

The Reinvention of Social Practices By Gary Genosko

The Reinvention of Social Practices by Gary Genosko


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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.

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The Reinvention of Social Practices: Essays on Felix Guattari by Gary Genosko

The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Felix 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.

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Genosko has long been our surest guide to Guattari's thought, and here he puts that thought to work in wide-ranging studies of infocapital's psychosocial predations and challenges. More than mere explication or mechanical application of Guattari's concepts, these essays offer original and much-needed insights into the possibilities open to us for transforming contemporary institutions and mentalities. -- Ronald Bogue, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, University of Georgia

About Gary Genosko

Gary Genosko is Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.His many publications include The Guattari Reader (1996), Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction (2002), Felix Guattari: A Critical Introduction (2009) and Machinic Eros: Felix Guattari's Writings on Japan (2015).

Table of Contents

Foreword, Simon O'Sullivan / Section A: In the Social Field / Introduction / A1. The Transversality of the Oasis Skateboard Factory Alternative School / A2. Informatic Striation in Indigenous Canada and Australia / A3. Promises of the Post-Media Era / Section B: Passages of Desire / Introduction / B1. In this Sleep: A Dream Pragmatics for David Wojnarowicz / B2. The Unpaid Bills of Desire / B3. Black Holes of Drugs and Politics / Section C: Criss-Crossing Paths / Introduction / C1. Guattareuze & Co. / C2. Do It! Negri and the Yippies / C3. Epilepsy, Speed and Affect / C4. Micropolitics of Hope / Section D: Search for a Method / Introduction / D1. The Search for Non-meaning / D2. Dissident Organ: The Three Billion Perverts Issue of Recherches / D3. For a Transdisciplinary Metamethodology / Afterword, Janell Watson / Bibliography / Index

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NLS9781786605061
9781786605061
1786605066
The Reinvention of Social Practices: Essays on Felix Guattari by Gary Genosko
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield International
2018-03-27
136
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