Joan Broadhurst Dixon, Eric J. Cassidy (eds.): Virtual Futures. Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism (1998)

“Virtual Futures explores the ideas that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world. New technologies like cyberspace, the internet, and Chaos theory are often discussed in the context of technology and its potential to liberate or in terms of technophobia. This collection examines both these ideas while also charting a new and controversial route through contemporary discourses on technology; a path that discusses the material evolution and the erotic relation between humans and machines. Including essays by Sadie Plant, Stelarc and Manuel de Landa, the collection heralds the death of humanism and the rise of posthuman pragmatism. This collection provides analyses by both established theorists and the most innovative new voices working in conjunction between the arts and contemporary technology.”

Keywords and phrases
Neuromancer, telepathy, cybernetic, Freud, body without organs, pleasure principle, deterritorialization, Lyotard, postmodern, fascism, cyborg, cyberspace, metaphysic of presence, Hebrew alphabet, Talmud, Cybergothic, Habiru, University of Warwick, pictographic, schizoanalysis

Publisher Routledge, 1998
ISBN 0415133793, 9780415133791
125 pages

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Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1980–) [FR, IT, EN, ES, BR-PT, RU, CR]

“A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.”

Publisher Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1980
Volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizophrénie
ISBN 2707303070
645 pages

English edition
Translation and Foreword by Brian Massumi
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1987
ISBN 0816614024, 9780816614028
xix+610 pages

Key words and phrases: deterritorialization, abstract machine, rhizome, body without organs, semiotic, haecceities, war machine, stratum, black hole, nomad, fascism, destratification, psychoanalysis, line of flight, Gilles Deleuze, molar, haptic, schizoanalysis, surplus value, Paul Virilio

Review: Sander L. Gilman (Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1989).

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Mille plateaux (French, 1980, 7 MB, added on 2015-3-24, updated on 2016-8-3)
A Thousand Plateaus (English, trans. Brian Massumi, 1987, 6 MB, updated on 2019-8-19)
Mille piani: capitalismo e schizofrenia (Italian, trans. Giorgio Passerone, 1987/2003, 10 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Mil mesetas: capitalismo y esquizofrenia (Spanish, trans. José Vázquez Pérez with Umbelina Larraceleta, 1988, 23 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Mil platôs: capitalismo e esquizofrenia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (BR-Portuguese, trans. Ana Lúcia de Oliveira, et al., 1995-97, added on 2016-8-3)
Kapitalizm i shizofreniya: tysyacha plato (Russian, trans. Ya.I. Svirsky, 2010, DJV, 11 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Kapitalizam i shizofrenija 2. Tisuću platoa (Croatian, trans. Marko Gregorić, 2013, 19 MB, added on 2021-3-24)

Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972–) [FR, ES, DE, IT, GR, EN, RU, PT]

“When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society’s innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person’s unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What’s more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.”

Publisher Les Editions de Minuit, 1972

English edition
Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane
Preface by Michel Foucault
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1983
400 pages

Key terms: schizoanalysis, desiring-production, deterritorialization, Anti-Oedipus, psychoanalysis, Oedipus complex, anti-production, surplus-value, nuclear family, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Marxism, incest, exclusive disjunction, death instinct, Nietzsche, Spinoza, permanent revolution, paralogism, capitalist

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L’Anti-Oedipe: Capitalisme et schizophrénie (French, added on 2012-10-18)
El Anti Edipo: Capitalismo y esquizofrenia (Spanish, trans. Francisco Monge, 1973/1985, added on 2013-1-1)
Anti-Ödipus: Kapitalismus und Schizophrenie I (German, trans. Bernd Schwips, 1974/1977, no OCR, added on 2013-1-2)
L’anti-Edipo: Capitalismo e schizofrenia (Italian, trans. Alessandro Fontana, 1975, added on 2013-1-1)
Kapitalismós kai schizofréneia: o anti-Oidípous (Greek, trans. Καίτη Χατζηδήμου and Ιουλιέττα Ράλλη, 1981, 24 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (English, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane, 1983, updated on 2012-10-18)
Анти-Эдип: Капитализм и шизофрения (Russian, trans. Д.Кралечкина, 2008, DJVU, no OCR, added on 2013-1-2)
O anti-Édipo: capitalismo e esquizofrenia (Portuguese, trans. Luiz B. L. Orlandi, 2010, added on 2013-1-1)

See also their A Thousand Plateaus.