[rohrpost] FELIX A book by Franco Berardi Bifo

The proliferation of the Internet, the emerging of a bioinfo paradigm in science and in biotechnology, the birth of the global movement against corporate capitalism are the visible forms of the becoming rhyzome of the world, mapped in advance in the works of Deleuze and Guattari.
The specific contribution of Guattari to the creation of the rhyzomatic thought is analysed in this book by Franco Berardi who was a close friend of Guattari, and worked with him during two decades.
The book is simultaneously a narration of events of friendship, struggle and wanderings, and the reconstruction of the conceptual building that Guattari contributed to create.

In the first chapter (Maps of Becoming) the Author outlines the ability of the rhyzomatic thought to explain and conceptualize the present developments in technology, economy, and in the social mind.

In the second chapter (Depression Felix) the problem of psychic sorrow is considered in the frame of the personal life of Guattari, and in the context of the philosophy of desire.

In the third chapter (World integrated capitalism) the political thought of Guattari is considered as an anticipation of the present process of globalisation..

In the fourth chapter (Psychopathic world) the Author takes a shizoanalytic look on the re-emerging of fascism as a form of re-territorialisation in the age of globalisation.

In the fifth chapter (Postmedia sensitivity) the aesthetic approach of Guattari is considered in relationship with the becoming-net of the Infosphere, and the proliferation of techno-devices in the daily life and communication.

The second part of the book is dedicated to the relationship of Guattari with Gilles Deleuze, the specificity of their distinct contributions to the creation of a rhyzomatic thought.
The chapters are dedicated to the AntiOedipe in the context of the '68, Kafka and the birth of the concept of hypertext, Mille plateaux and the concept of tantric egg, Chaosmose and the singularity of psychogenesis.