nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

Endnotes1. This text was collectively written and edited by Paolo Plotegher, Bue RübnerHansen, Emma Dowling, Manuela Zechner, Mara Ferreri and Amitabh Rai. Passages fromthis have been published in Lateral Journal (2011) Issue 1, Ed. Emma Dowling. lateral.culturalstudiesassociation.org/issue1/nanopolitics.html as well as in Félix Guattari: los ecosdel pensar (2012). Ed Gabriela Berti. Spain: Hakabooks.2. Nanopolitics Collective notes, session on love and eroticism with Beth Pacheco: ‘Tempetede l’amour’. August 2010, London.3. Félix Guattari (2009) ‘Desire is Power, Power is Desire’, in Chaosophy, Los Angeles:Semiotext(e), p. 290.4. Anonmymous et al. (1973) ‘To have done with the Massacre of the Body’, published as anintroduction to the controversial/censored issue of Recherches journal Trois milliards de pervers,edited by the Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire and Felix Guattari.5. Foucault, Michel and Bitoux, Jean (1978), ‘The Gay Science’, Interview. Translated byNicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith in : Critical Inquiry, Vol 37, No.3, Spring 2011, p. 403.6. Alberto Grifi (1976) Il festival del proletariato giovanile al Parco Lambro, documentaryfilm. Excerpts online at youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5tR08e03I7. Deleuze and Guattari’s insistence on the perspective of bodies without organs requires arethinking of the body beyond the classical biological image of a closed whole consisting of adifferentiated and hierarchized set of functional elements. But Deleuze and Guattari’s image istoo easily read as the non-reproductive inversion or underside of the hyper-reproductive body ofclassical biology. We want to speak of reproduction in the sense of transversal ecologies.8. Some would not speak of what they do as ‘politics’ or ‘political’, due to the near identificationof politics with the spectacle and corruption of capitalist parliamentarianism in Britain.9. Service sector and care work of course messes with this classical distinction, proper toFordist and pre-Fordist capitalism.10. Anne Sauvagnargues mentioned this phrase in one of the seminars on Guattari’s bookChaosmose, introducing the chapter on the ‘Aesthetic Paradigm’. Paris, 17 th February 2012.38