On Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari subtitled Schizo-politics for Scallies from Break/Flow 1, 1996 with a short intro 2024.
In the aftermath of the Poll Tax rebellion sense of ‘disenchantment’ was rife. For Howard Slater the key zone of investigation became what could be termed Marxist-Freudianism and an ongoing engagement with Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus was pivotal.
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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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A label portrait of Force Inc./Riot Beats/Mille Plateaux consisting of our label questionnaire (answered by Digital Hardcore in Issue 0.0), text by Achim Szepanski, and some record reviews, published in Alien Underground 0.1 in Spring 1995
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