Author: Howard Slater

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Sincere Genesis – On Félix Guattari & Groups

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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EARTH ‘A RUN RED: Impressionistic notes on Pierre Guyotat’s ‘Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers’

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.

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