Guattari Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts by Paul Elliott (author) - IB Tauris, London, 1st May 2012

"Guattari Reframed" presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practicing psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. Employing the language of visual culture and concrete examples drawn from it, this book introduces and reassesses the major concepts developed throughout Guattari's writings, asserting his significance as a revolutionary philosopher and cultural theorist and invites the reader to transform both their understanding of Guattari, and their lives through his ideas.

Introduction: Guattari De-leuzed

Part One: How to Critique your Milieu
Chapter One: The Clinical Milieu – Transversality
Chapter Two: The Cultural Milieu – The Molar and the Molecular
Chapter Three: The Political Milieu – Micropolitics

Part Two: How to Make Yourself a War Machine 
Chapter Four: The Machine
Chapter Five: Schizoanalysis
Chapter Six: Faciality
 Chapter Seven: The Refrain
 
Part Three: How to Think Chaosophically 
Chapter Eight: Molecular Revolution
Chapter Nine: Cinematic Desiring Machines
Chapter Ten: Ecosophy
 
Conclusion: Guattari Reframed

Paul Elliott is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Worcester and the author of Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations.

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