Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

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.

Author: Charles J. Stivale, Franco Berardi Bifo
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/05/2008
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230221192

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.