Description: A collection of essays from leading experts in a number of fields offering an overview of the work of Felix Guattari.
Brief description: Andrew Goffey is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communications at Middlesex University, UK.
Review Quotes: "The contributors--Éric Alliez, Andrew Goffey, Jean-Claude Polack, Peter Pál Pel-bart, Anne Querrien, Barbara Glowczewski, Gary Genosko, Isabelle Stengers, Antonio Negri, Anne Sauvagnargues, Franco 'Bifo' Beradi, Stephen Zepke, Raymond Bellour, Pascale Criton, Annie Ratti, as well as Guattari himself form a "collective assemblage of enuncia-tion" that re-animates the Guattarian corpus for a new generation...What can keep desire on a trajectory that will lead it beyond the plane of exploitation and commodification? What form(s) of desire should be de-sired? Looking to (looking at) Guattari is one way to begin to theoretically answer these questions. This perhaps simple point is literally and materially rendered in the pages of Ratti's photo-art essay. The silence of these images speaks of what remains, and is yet to be said, in the name and in the spirit of Guattari. This is perhaps finally the most significant effect of Guattari's thought today: it spurs the desire to look again at Guattari's life, work, and legacy. The generosity of his texts invite us 'to come back to it, not so as to conclude, but to start again.' (Alliez, 260)" --Jonathan Fardy, Western University