Introduction: Guattari and Gender

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Notes

1. Félix Guattari, ‘A Liberation of Desire: An Interview by George Stambolian’, in The Guattari Reader, ed. Gary Genosko, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, p. 205.

2. Interview with Christian Decamps, Quinzaine littéraire 215, August 1975; Félix Guattari, ‘Becoming a Woman’, in Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics, trans. from the French by Rosemary Sheed, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984. For extensive discussions of the notion, see Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook (eds), Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. As is often the case, ‘Deleuze’ in this title serves also as shorthand for ‘Deleuze and Guattari’, The Guattari Reader, pp. 183–230, given the emphasis on the co-authored works.

3. Guattari, pp. 183–230.

4. Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations: 1972–1990, trans. from the French by Martin Joughin, New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, p. 15.

5. Félix Guattari, L'Inconscient machinique: essays de schizo-analyse, Paris: Recherches, 1979.

6. Félix Guattari, ‘I Am an Idea Thief’, trans. from the French by Chet Wiener, in Chaosophy, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotexte, 1995, p. 40. In this essay, the French ‘agencement’ is translated as ‘arrangement’, rather than the usual translation of ‘assemblage’.

7. Félix Guattari, Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm, trans. from the French by Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 7, 13, 93.

8. Félix Guattari, ‘Subjectivities: For Better and for Worse’, in Guattari, The Guattari Reader, pp. 193–203.

9. Félix Guattari, ‘Le Temps des ritournelles’, in L'Inconscient machinique, pp. 109–53.

10. Gary Genosko, ‘Transversality’, in Félix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction, London: Continuum, 2002, pp. 66–121.