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Felice Cimatti, Fabio Gironi: Unbecoming Human (2022, Edinburgh University Press)
Colin Cremin: Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari (2015, Taylor & Francis Group)
Michael James Bennett, Tano S. Posteraro: Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory (2020, Edinburgh University Press)

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Frank Herbert: Dune (Hardcover, 1987, Berkley)
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus (1987)
Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell (2016)

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Giuseppe Fiori: Antonio Gramsci: life of a revolutionary (1970, NLB)
Tamara PhD Rosier: Your Brain's Not Broken (Paperback, 2021, Revell)
Kristen Ghodsee: Red Valkyries (2021, Verso Books)

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51% complete! aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) has read 33 of 64 books.

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quoted The Anti-Oedipus Papers by Félix Guattari

Félix Guattari: The Anti-Oedipus Papers (2006) No rating

Notes and journal entries document Guattari and Deleuze's collaboration on their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus.

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“Félix has always operated in multiple dimensions, in so many different psychiatric and political activities; he does a lot of group work. Or perhaps I should compare him to the sea: always apparently in motion, sparkling with light non-stop. He can jump from one activity to another, he doesnt sleep much, he travels, he never stops. He never relents. He has extraordinary speeds.” Deleuze says that he himself is “more like a hill: I don't move much, I can't manage two projects at once, I obsess over my ideas, and the few movements I do have are internal.” So it was a combat, but an original combat that did not set two combatants against one another, but where the opposition was at the very heart of a single combat: “Together, Félix and I would have made a good Sumo wrestler.”?

— The Anti-Oedipus Papers by 

I love their relationship and the way Deleuze talks about Guattari. Is v cute :3

quoted Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-oedipus by Ian Buchanan

Ian Buchanan: Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-oedipus (Paperback, 2008, Continuum International Publishing Group) No rating

In this system the negative that has constantly to be negated is the apparent positive of ‘stock’, that is to say accumulated wealth that if allowed to grow would become capital and thereby begin to unleash flows of its own, flows that would escape codification. All the variations on the potlatch rituals, some of which include the deliberate destruction of surplus food by fire or dispatch into the sea, are structured to achieve this goal of eliminating ‘stock’. In doing so, the tribe puts itself in the debt of its neighbours and at the mercy of the elements, thereby ensuring by power of necessity that all members of the tribe work together to stave off starvation. Tribe members wear the signs of their tribe on their flesh in acknowledgement of this common cause and their individual indebtedness to the tribe for providing for them.

— Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-oedipus by 

One interesting thing about Anti-Oedipus is that D&G claim that earlier social formations operate in a way to stave off the logic of capitalism. Like, for instance, via rituals that eliminate surplus resources and don't allow the cyclical, self-sustaining processes of capital accumulation/growth to arise.

It's interesting. I think the only way that it's believable to me is that certain social formations attempt to perpetuate themselves and see certain developments as at odds with that perpetuation. I don't think they could specifically know that there is a certain politico-economic system that has specific dynamics called capitalism that they're fighting to stave off.

Another thing that the above section makes me think about. If people in tribal formations did rituals that were indulgent/destructive of resources to stave off the logic of capitalist accumulation, then what does the ritual that is Amazon mass-destroying electronics stave off?