Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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IN FLUX
Maurice Nadeau: Could you briefly explain how your collaboration
came into being*
Felix Guattari: This collaboration is not the product of a simple
meeting of two individuals. Aside from a combination of circumstances,
we were also led to it by a whole political context. Initially
it was less a question of pooling knowledge than the accumulation
of our uncertainties, and even a certain distress in the face of the
turn of events after May '68.
We are part of a generation whose political consciousness was
born in the enthusiasm and naivete of the Liberation, with its
conspiratorial mythology of fascism. And the questions left hanging
by the other failed revolution that was May ' 68 were developed for
us based on a counterpoint that was all the more troubling because,
like many others, we were worried about the future being readied
for us, one that could make you miss the fascism of yore.
Our starting point was to consider that during these crucial
periods something along the order of desire manifested itself on the
* Maurice Nadeau is the editor of La "Quinzaine Litteraire," in which this interview
was published. Fran