Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Poetry

Jason Skeet is an independent researcher, writer and electronic musician. His research focuses on the theory and practice of schizoanalysis and he received his PhD from Cardiff University for his project Writing the Real: Deleuze and Contemporary Poetry. He has published book chapters and journal articles in Journal of Scottish Thought, Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, Rhizomes and Deleuze and Guattari Studies. He is also the editor of See You in Space: Selected Documents of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPreface by Gregg LambertIntroduction: Schizoanalysis of Poetry and its Problems, Objectives and Method1. Applied schizoanalysis: a primer2. Bent ballads and pervert postures: Charles Bernstein’s ‘The Ballad of the Girly Man’ and the politics of poetry3. Writing for a time to come: repetition in the poetry of Robert Lax4. Making meaning in/with Maggie O’Sullivan’s murmur: tasks for mourning 5. From ‘shipwreck of the singular’ to post-media poetics: Pierre Joris’s Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj as processual praxis6. Reading the road: Kenneth White’s ‘struggle for subjectivity’ and the problem of the nomad7. The people are (still) missing: Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart and the problem of minor literature todayConclusion: Memories of a Literary Critic