User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphaticallypractical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze andFelix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richestscholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, thedozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, andpopular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debateson postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two bookspublished a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; itis a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" strains of psychoanalysis. The second,A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuzeand Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy.Brian Massumi is Professor of ComparativeLiterature at McGill University.

Sean M. Lynn-Jones is a Belfer Center researcher at Harvard University and Editor of International Security, the International Security Program's quarterly journal.