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news. The aggression is, in fact, even more violent than anywhere else; one bends<br />

unconsciously to the sociopolitical coordinates, to a type of moralization without<br />

which capitalist industrialized societies probably could not function.<br />

20. Molecular Revolutions<br />

1. Attracted by world-wide media coverage, agent provocateurs, presumably from<br />

Larouche's Labor Committee, tried a few times to disrupt the Conference by publicly<br />

accusing R.D. Laing and Michel Foucault of being paid by the CIA. See Foucault<br />

Live. New York: Semiotext(e) (1995).-Ed.<br />

2. Gilles Deleuze spoke in French in the afternoon about trees and rhizomes while<br />

drawing graphs on the blackboard, an idea later developed in "Rhizomes." See On<br />

The line. New York: Semiotext(e) (1983).-Ed.<br />

3. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, called "Danny the Red," was the most outspoken leader of<br />

the May '68 uprising.-Ed.<br />

4. The previous day Guattari had suggested replacing the formal lecture format with<br />

short summeries followed by discussions, and the audience split in two over this<br />

proposal in the middle of Joel Kovel's Paper. Half of the audience remained in the<br />

main hall, while the rest moved with Guattari to a smaller room where Foucault had<br />

his paper on "Infant Sexuality" read in English. It is at that point that a provocateur<br />

accused Foucault of being a CIA agent. It should be noted that the Conference was<br />

not sponsored by Columbia University and that registration fees for the Conference<br />

were entirely used to pay for the lecture rooms at Teacher's College.-Ed.<br />

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