CHARLES J. STIVALE, DISCUSSION WITH FELIX GUATTARI

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PROGRAMME NOTE: This very long discussion with Felix Guattari occurred in 1985. Stivale's questions about concepts in the writing of Deleuze & Guattari elicit answers that shed light on the difficult text of A Thousand Plateaus and other D&G works. His questions about mid-80s politics in France and Reagan-era culture in the USA bring delightfully colorful and insightful answers from a Guattari whose inventiveness and joy of thinking are everywhere evident.

The discussion sheds light on our Commandment X in the Ten Commandments of the Postmodern, which "dictates" an open-endedness.

To capture this text, we downloaded from the deleuze-guattari discussion list and rendered it in minimal html for THE PROGRAMME. The link below thus does not go out to the WWW but to a local file in THE PROGRAMME. We have Charles Stivale's permission for this operation.

Stivale informed us that this text appeared in print in PRE/TEXT 14.3-4 (1993) 215-250. He also includes it in a book forthcoming at this writing: THE 'TWO-FOLD' THOUGHT OF GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI: INTERSECTIONS AND ANIMATIONS. NYC: Guilford Publications, forthcoming.

Charles J. Stivale, at Wayne State University's Department of Romance Languages and Literature, College of Liberal Arts, is open to questions about his text: (CSTIVAL@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU)

CHARLES J. STIVALE, DISCUSSION WITH FELIX GUATTARI.

3 June 1997; updated 23 June 1997

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