Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

Franco Berardi Bifo

Nov 2008 · Springer

About this ebook

Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s. This biography gains distinction from its keen insight into Guattari's political practice and from a precise understanding of how this practice relates to the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Guattari's writings, alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Thanks to an approach at once personal and theoretically well informed, Bifo's biography provides a clear and accessible introduction to Guattari's works. This edition also includes a critical introduction and a 2005 interview with Bifo on a range of topics relating Guattari's works to the current political conjuncture.

About the author

FRANCO BERARDI (BIFO) is Professor of Social History of Communication, Academia di Belle Art di Milano, Italy.

GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA is Associate Professor of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

CHARLES J. STIVALE is Distinguished Professor of French, Wayne State University, USA.