Molecular revolution in Brazil / Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik ; translated by Karel Clapshow and Brian Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992.

Contributor:

Rolnik, Suely.

Clapshow, Karel

Holmes, Brian.

Series:

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Semiotext(e) foreign agents

Standardized Title:

Micropolitica. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Political aspects.

Psychoanalysis.

Political psychology.

Brazil--Politics and government--1964-1985.

Brazil.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

495 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass : distributed by The MIT Press, 2008.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

This book is more a kind of travel journal than a work of philosophy, psychoanalysis or politics. Suely wrote it after we went through Brazil on the lookout for individuals, groups, intensities and desires coming our way. These fragments, blocks of ideas, confidences, snippets of conversations, of letters, of conferences-Suely's montage of words, mine, hers, of so many others-aim to break loose from the individualization of enunciation. They are a declaration of love for the intelligence and the collective sensibility of that country.

Following Brazil's first democratic election after two decades of military dictatorship, French philosopher Felix Guattari traveled through the country in 1982 with Brazilian psychoanalyst Suely Rolnik and discovered an exciting, new political vitality. In the infancy of its new republic, Brazil was moving against traditional hierarchies and totalitarian regimes to found a revolution of ideas and politics. Molecular Revolution in Brazil documents the conversations, discussions, and debates that arose during the trip, including a dialogue between Guattari and Brazil's future President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, then a young gubernatorial candidate. Through these exchanges, Guattari cuts through to the shadowy practices of globalization gone awry and boldly charts a revolution in practice.

Assembled and edited by Rolnik, Molecular Revolution in Brazil is organized thematically; aphoristic at times, it presents a lesser-known, more overtly political aspect of Guattari's work. Originally published in Brazil in 1986 as Micropolitica: Cartografias do desejo, the book became a crucial reference for political movements in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s. It now provides English-speaking readers with an invaluable picture of the radical thought and optimism that lies at the root of Guattari's work and of Lula's Brazil.

Contents:

1 Culture: A Reactionary Concept? 21

2 Subjectivity and History 35

3 Politics 179

4 Desire and History 291

5 Emotion, Energy, Body, Sex 403

6 Love, Territories of Desire, and a New Smoothness 413

7 Looking Back on the Brazilian Journey 427

Appendix Notes about certain concepts 463.

ISBN:

9781584350514

1584350512

OCLC:

153578147