Felix Guattari Quotes

The philosopher must become non-philosopher so that non-philosophy becomes the earth and people of philosophy.

The privatization of the organs will only begin with the shame felt by man at the sight of man.

Psihanalistul devine regizorul unui teatru privat - in loc sa fie inginerul sau mecanicul care monteaza unitati de productie, care se lupta cu agenti colectivi de productie si de antiproductie.

There are no longer even any masters, but only slaves commanding other slaves; there is no longer any need to burden the animal from the outside, it shoulders its own burden. Not that man is ever the slave of technical machines; he is rather the slave of the social machine. The bourgeois sets the example, he absorbs surplus value for ends that, taken as a whole, have nothing to do with his own enjoyment: more utterly enslaved than the lowest of slaves, he is the first servant of the ravenous machine, the beast of the reproduction of capital, internalization of the infinite debt. "I too am a slave"—these are the new words spoken by the master.

Our society produces schizos the same way it produces Prell Shampoo and Ford cars, the only difference being that the schizos are not salable.

It is illegitimate to conclude from the prohibition anything regarding the nature of what is prohibited; for the prohibition proceeds by dishonouring the guilty, that is to say, by inducing a disfigured or displaced image of the thing that is really prohibited or desired. Indeed, this is how social repression prolongs itself by means of psychic repression without which it would have no grip on desire.

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

Worse still: how can psychiatric practice have made him this sort of rag, how can it have reduced him to this state of a body without organs that has become a dead thing–this schizo who sought to remain at that unbearable point where the mind touches matter and lives its every intensity, consumes it?

There is no question, however, of establishing a dualist opposition between the two types of multiplicities, molecular machines and molar machines; that would be no better than the dualism between the One and the multiple. There are only multiplicities of multiplicities forming a single assemblage, operating in the same assemblage: packs in masses and masses in packs.

The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate. Capitalism has learned this, and has ceased doubting itself, while even socialists have abandoned belief in the possibility of capitalism's natural death by attrition. No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way.

... Cât despre liniile de fugă , ele nu constau niciodată în a fugi de lume, ci, mai degrabă, în a face lumea să fugă, să scape, să plesnească... și nu există sistem social care să nu scape pe la toate capetele sale, chiar dacă segmentele lui nu încetează să se întărească, să devină din ce în ce mai dure pentru a colmata liniile de fugă. Nimic imaginar sau simbolic într-o linie de fugă. Nimic mai activ decât o linie de fugă, la animal și la om. ... În fiecare moment, ce anume scapă, fuge într-o societate? Tocmai pe liniile de fugă se inventează noi arme, pentru a le opune marilor arme de stat... frecvent... un grup, un individ funcționează el însuși ca o linie de fugă; o creează mai curând decât o urmează, este mai curând el însuși arma vie pe care o meșterește decât o ia de la alții. Liniile de fugă sunt realități; și sunt extrem de periculoase pentru societăți, chiar dacă acestea nu pot să se lipsească de ele și uneori chiar le menajează.

Infine la terra non è completamente il contrario della D: lo si vede già nel mistero del "natale", dove la terra come focolare ardeente, eccentrico o intenso, è fuori dal territorio e non esiste solo nel movimento della D. Ma, ancor di più, la terra, la glaciale, è la Deterritorializzata per eccellenza: in questo senso appartiene al cosmo e si presenta come il materiale attraverso il quale l'uomo capta forze cosmiche. Si dirà che la terra stessa in quanto deterritorializzata è lo stretto correlato della D.

Infine la terra non è completamente il contrario della Deterritorializzione: lo si vede già nel mistero del "natale", dove la terra come focolare ardeente, eccentrico o intenso, è fuori dal territorio e non esiste solo nel movimento della D. Ma, ancor di più, la terra, la glaciale, è la Deterritorializzata per eccellenza: in questo senso appartiene al cosmo e si presenta come il materiale attraverso il quale l'uomo capta forze cosmiche. Si dirà che la terra stessa in quanto deterritorializzata è lo stretto correlato della D.

The “postmodernist” label has been attached to a wide variety of writers, including the philosopher Gilles Deleuze; his frequent collaborator the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari; sociologist Jean Baudrillard; psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan; and Luce Irigaray, whose writings deal with topics in many fields. So multifarious are these various manifestations of the postmodernist spirit that I can give only a very broad and impressionistic characterization of the attitudes and outlooks that tie them together.

Of course, Kafka doesn't see himself as a sort of party. He doesn't even pretend to be revolutionary, whatever his socialist sympathies may be. He knows that all the lines link him to a literary machine of expression for which he is simultaneously the gears, the mechanic, the operator, and the victim. So how will he proceed in this bachelor machine that doesn't make use of, and can't make use of, social critique? How will he make a revolution? He will act on the German language such as it is in Czechoslovakia. Since it is a deterritorialized language in many ways, he will push the deterritorialization farther, not through intensities, reversals and thickenings of the language but through a sobriety that makes language take flight on a straight line, anticipates or produces its segmentations. Expression must sweep up content; the same process must happen to form... It is not a politics of pessimism, nor a literary caricature or a form of science fiction.

Marile descoperiri din interiorul creștinătății, descoperirea de noi pământuri și de noi continente, de câte trădări n-au fost ele însoțite: linii de deteritorializare prin care mici grupuri trădează absolut totul, pe tovarășii lor, pe rege, pe băștinași, pe exploratorul vecin, în speranța nebunească de a pune, împreună cu o femeie din familia lor, bazele unei rase în sfârșit pure, prin care totul să poată fi luat, în sfârșit, de la zero. (Gilles Deleuze si Felix Guattari)

Suddenly the despot sees rising up before him, against him, the enemy who brings death - an eye with too steady a look, a mouth with too unfamiliar a smil; each organ is a possible protest.

The Marx-Freud parallelism between the two remains utterly sterile and insignificant as long as it is expressed in terms that make them introjections and projections of each other without ceasing to be utterly alien to each other, as in the famous equation money = shit.

Becoming is an antimemory.

In other terms: that God and the father never existed (or if they did, it was so long ago, perhaps during the Paleolithic). All they did was kill a dead man, from time immemorial.

a child is being beaten, children are beaten"—a typical group fantasy where desire invests the social field and its repressive forms. If there is a mise en scene, it is directed by a social desiring-machine whose product should not be considered abstractly, separating the girl's and the boy's cases, as if each were a little ego taking up its own business with daddy and mommy. On the contrary, we should consider the complementary ensemble made up of boy-girl and parents-agents of production and antiproduction, this ensemble being present at the same time in each individual and in the socius that presides over the organization of the group fantasy. Simultaneously the boys are beaten-initiated by the teacher on the little girl's erotic stage (seeing-machine), and obtain satisfaction in a masochistic fantasy involving the mother (anal machine). The result is that the boys are able to see only by becoming little girls, and the girls cannot experience the pleasure of punishment except by becoming boys. It is a whole chorus, a montage: back in the village after a raid in Vietnam, in the presence of their weeping sisters, the filthy Marines are beaten by their instructor, on whose knees the mommy is seated, and they have orgasms for having been so evil, for having tortured so well. It's so bad, but also so good!