Tag Archives: schizoanalysis

Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)

Posted on December 6, 2014 by edmundberger

[This has been cross-posted with discussion over at Synthetic Zero] (worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anthropocene, apparatus, architecture, civil society, contagion, control, crisis, cybernetics, Deleuze, design, everyday life, glitch, Guattari, hacking, Information Guerrilla, information theory, Metropolis, neoliberalism, noise, Protocol, schizoanalysis, Situationism, urbanism | 6 Comments

Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication

Posted on May 26, 2014 by edmundberger

We have become so accustomed to violence through entertainment that transgression itself has become merely another capitalist performance. How then do we elevate art, how can it be a reaction to the Other instead of its medium? How must we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged affect, Attali, Bataille, becoming, communication, contagion, control, Dada, Deleuze, desire, discipline, dread, dub, Foucault, Furies, Futurism, global ghettotech, globalization, Guattari, heresy, krautrock, lack, McKenzie Wark, media, modernism, network, networks, Nick Land, noise, noncommunicatin, power, Protocol, resistance, rhizomes, sabotage, sacrifice, schizoanalysis, schizophrenia, Situationism, the negative, the sacred, the weird, transgression, via negativa, xenocommunication | 12 Comments

Power, Knowledge, Self-Reference: Guattari’s Triad

Posted on February 13, 2014 by edmundberger

“Machines,” wrote Gilles Deleuze in his examination of Foucault’s thought, “are always social before being technical. Or, rather, there is a human technology before which exists before a material technology.”i With this simple statement, the entirety of processes in development … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged communication, control, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, information technology, machine, modulation, neoliberalism, schizoanalysis, sovereign | 7 Comments

Deleuze & Guattari: Democrats

Posted on July 24, 2013 by edmundberger

Originally posted on Path to the Possible:
Sorry for the delay in posting new things. I have just returned from the Lisbon and the Deleuze Studies Conference, and Dublin and the AESOP/ACSP planning conference. Here is the text of my…

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, Deleuze, democracy, globalization, Guattari, Lefebvre, schizoanalysis | Leave a comment

Nomad Culture

Posted on June 28, 2013 by edmundberger

Gilles Deleuze: Faced with the decoding of our societies, the leaking away of our codes, Nietzsche is the one who does not endeavor to recode. He says: things still haven’t gone far enough, you are just children yet (“the equalizing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bateson, cybernetics, Deleuze, Nietzsche, nomadim, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | 5 Comments

Radical Therapeutics: Family Therapy and the Politics of Chance

Posted on June 20, 2013 by edmundberger

“Perhaps the domain of family therapy was postmodern before its time, eschewing a vision of progress toward a progressively revealed ‘truth’ for one in which the coexistence of multiple voices allows us to contribute to the richness of our unique … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, Bateson, Deleuze, Elkaim, family therapy, Guattari, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | 7 Comments

Art Under Capital (Part II): Aesthetics Beyond Capital

Posted on May 28, 2013 by edmundberger

At the same seminar where Antonio Negri laid out his historical materialist analysis of art and its relationship to the capitalist modes of production, fellow Autonomist Bifo took to the podium with a very different take on the matters. Art, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, art, becoming, Bifo, Can, Deleuze, fascism, Guattari, neoliberalim, rave culture, schizoanalysis | 2 Comments

How does Schizoanalysis Work? or, “how do you make a class operate like a work of art”

Posted on May 15, 2013 by edmundberger

“So what is schizo-analysis?” When Lacan finally poses the question, as recounted in The Anti-Oedipus Papers, Guattari doesn’t tell us what his reply, his explanation, is. Instead, there is only the focus on the despotic master of psychology, and Guattari’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, autopoiesis, chaos theory, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, ecology, Guattari, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis, schizophrenia, Sloterdijk | 7 Comments

Crisis and Cure: Three Quotes

Posted on May 13, 2013 by edmundberger

Economic Crisis Felix Guattari taught me to see social processes as productions of the unconscious and to see the unconscious as the laboratory in which the scenarios of social action are produced. There is no need to think of power … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bifo, crisis, ecology, ecopsychoanalysis, Guattari, neoliberalism, schizoanalysis | Leave a comment

Guattari’s Oedipus

Posted on May 5, 2013 by edmundberger

Noir Realism has put up a thought-provoking post on Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, describing the work as a “Black Book of Riddles,” a “dreamwork” that doesn’t so much offer a strict revolutionary praxis, but opts instead for an extended poetic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alterity, Anti-Oedipus, Body without Organs, Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, Oedipus, psychology, schizoanalysis | 8 Comments