Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Franois Dosse
INTRODUCTION
OSOPHY
Chaosophy gathers a senes of scattered texts by Felix Guattari
according to several themes accessible to an Anglo-Saxon readership:
first, there are clarifications on the singularity of the writing
machine assembled with Gilles Deleuze, which lasted from 1969,
when they met, to the publication in 1991 of What Is Philosophy
Second, the texts from 1977 give an idea of what the private La
Borde clinic, in which Guattari worked, was like, and of his
ambivalent relationship with antipsychiatry. Third, the texts collected
in subsequent volumes (1977-1985 and 1986-1992) will allow us
to better understand his important role in the Italian autonomists'
movement, and his relationship with a triumphant modernity.
Guattari never allowed himself to lament a world which we have
lost. Rather, always displaying a critical spirit, he tried to bounce
back in order to chart innovative paths leading to the most creative
processes of subjectification possible: ''I'm hyperpessimistic and
hyperoptimistic at the same time."!
D&G: A Writing Machine
After May 1968, Deleuze intended to bring a philosophical
answer to the questions raised by Lacanian psychoanalysis. His
meeting with Guattari offered him a magnificent opportunity.
Moreover, in 1969 his health already was seriously impaired by the
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