Schizo Culture was a conference and accompanying journal about a gathering in November 1975, which brought (mainly untranslated) French theorists into collision and collaboration with elements of the SoHo Art Scene and with anti-psychiatry and prison activists. Recently re-published in book form.
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For a left that rejects the party-form and in times in which the ‘soviet’ model of workers councils became less viable, the question of organization has proved problematic. Guattari, a life-long member of militant groups from the 60s onwards, never failed to address this issue of how we can ‘belong together’. This short text offers the rudiments of Guattari’s response as informed by his work as a maverick psychoanalyst and his ideas of a micro-politics that upsets long-held views of what it is to be an ‘individual.’
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LAST SURVIVORS OR FIRST MUTANTS? – Notes on Surplus Population by Howard Slater from Datacide 15, published 2016.
Read MoreUntitled Maybe we could be lithe with the music be in its unknowable tones as substrate For ever diasporic as
Read MoreCut-Up-Marx Eleven An element of capital Labour itself – Existence – Placed in and in the valorisation process The
Read MoreThe method of plunder must be production There must be robbery There is a prevalent property The concentration could introduce
Read MoreCommunal capacity subordinated to social production The labour is not directly social and for society The individuals are now money
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The intense novels of Pierre Guyotat, from Tomb for 500,00 Soldiers to the banned Eden Eden Eden, are a challenging read that draw upon his witnessing the atrocities of the Algerian Civil War. Here, Howard Slater, instead of attempting an impossible exegesis, offers a readers-report, an impressionistic mélange, of the latter novel, first published in France in 1967 and translated into English by Creation Books in 2003.
Read MoreOpposition realities of living labour in the womb are placed And likewise the world of capital returns to its own
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