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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Félix Guatarri
Born 1930 (Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France), died 1992. French psychiatrist,
psychoanalyst and political activist, closely associated with Gilles Deleuze since the late
1960s. The first product of their remarkable long-term partnership, which coincided with
a period of intense political activism and a close friendship with Michel Foucault, was the
monumental Anti-Oedipus (1972), followed by A Thousand Plateaus (1980), and What
is Philosophy? (1991). Guatarri’s work is based firmly in his practice as a psychiatrist
working mainly with schizophrenics and constantly tries to find humane forms of treatment
that can be used in an institutional setting. Although Guatarri trained as a psychoanalyst
and was a member of Lacan’s École freudienne de Paris (Psychoanalytic School of Paris)
from 1964 until its dissolution in 1980, he is bitterly critical of psychoanalysis’s reliance
on and reproduction of Oedipal structures. Guattari was active on many fronts, from the
student protests of 1968 to gay activism, campaigns for free community radio stations, the
politics and philosophy desire and eventually the Green Party. In the late 1970s Guattari
suggested the term “Capitalisme mondial intégré” (CMI) / “Integrated World Capitalism”,
as an alternative to the term “globalization” denoting the contemporary capitalism, in an
attempt to stress a fundamentally economic, and more precisely – capitalist and neoliberal,
character of the phenomenon of “mondialisation” in its actual state.
Ulrich Beck
Born 1944 in Stolp, Germany (now Słupsk in Poland). He is professor of sociology at the
University of Munich (Institut für Soziologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and
the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1966 onwards he studied
sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science at Munich University. In 1972 he
left as a Doctor of Philosophy and worked as a sociologist at Munich University. He was
professor at the universities of Münster (1979-1981) and Bamberg (1981-1992). His main
research interests have been modernization, ecological problems, individualization, and
globalization. Recently he has also embarked on exploring the changing conditions of work
in a world of increasing global capitalism, declining influence of unions, and flexibilisation
of the labor process, a new theory rooted in the concept of cosmopolitanism, including (in
his own terms) “risk society” and “second modernity”. Beck is the editor of the sociological
journal Soziale Welt (since 1980), the author of numerous articles, and the author or
editor of many books, among which: Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986), The
Reinvention of Politics. Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order (1996), What is
Globalization? (1997), World Risk Society (1998), The Brave New World of Work (2000),
Power in the Global Age (2005), Cosmopolitan Vision (2006).
Tatjana Đurić Kuzmanović
She is Assistant Professor of European Economics and Gender and Economics at the
Advanced Business School of Economics, at Postgraduate Gender Studies at the University
of Novi Sad, Serbia, as well as at Postgraduate Program on the International Gender