Midmorning on Easter Monday of 1960, the French composer Jacques Besse, thirty-nine years old, newly homeless and mostly penniless, steps out into the slowly moving traffic at the busy intersection ...

Gilles Deleuze in Big Sur, California, 1975. (Photo by Jean-Jacques Lebel) “Academics’ lives are seldom interesting,” Gilles Deleuze told Magazine Littéraire in 1988. The life of the mind is not ...

People who do a lot of gardening probably know what a “rhizome” is in botanical terms. It is a kind of plant (including the prolific “wandering Jew”) that pops out of the ground over an expanding area ...

A new collection of essays explores the legacy of Félix Guattari’s thought on ‘post-media’ art (image via translocal.jp) The post-media suggestion itself has been the subject of deliberation for ...

The ‘philosophy of desire’ was born in 1969, Serge Gainsbourg’s annéeérotique, when the radical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari met the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Today, it’s hard to imagine them not ...

Anti-Oedipus sets out a critique of the psychoanalyis of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Instead of seeing desire as a lack of something, desire is considered a productive and creative force that is ...

"Machinic Eros" is a collection of texts about Japan written by French philosopher and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari during the bubbly 1980s. In his many trips to Japan, Guattari saw, like others, a ...