Reinvention of Social Practices

Gary Genosko is Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.His many publications include The Guattari Reader (1996), Félix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction (2002), Félix Guattari: A Critical Introduction (2009) and Machinic Eros: Félix Guattari’s Writings on Japan (2015).

• Foreword, Simon O’Sullivan / Section A: In the Social Field / Introduction / A1. The Transversality of the Oasis Skateboard Factory Alternative School / A2. Informatic Striation in Indigenous Canada and Australia / A3. Promises of the Post-Media Era / Section B: Passages of Desire / Introduction / B1. In this Sleep: A Dream Pragmatics for David Wojnarowicz / B2. The Unpaid Bills of Desire / B3. Black Holes of Drugs and Politics / Section C: Criss-Crossing Paths / Introduction / C1. Guattareuze & Co. / C2. Do It! Negri and the Yippies / C3. Epilepsy, Speed and Affect / C4. Micropolitics of Hope / Section D: Search for a Method / Introduction / D1. The Search for Non-meaning / D2. Dissident Organ: The Three Billion Perverts Issue of Recherches / D3. For a Transdisciplinary Metamethodology / Afterword, Janell Watson / Bibliography / Index

Genosko has long been our surest guide to Guattari’s thought, and here he puts that thought to work in wide-ranging studies of infocapital’s psychosocial predations and challenges. More than mere explication or mechanical application of Guattari’s concepts, these essays offer original and much-needed insights into the possibilities open to us for transforming contemporary institutions and mentalities.