Assemblages: Félix Guattari and Machinic Animism
MovieTitle | Assemblages: Félix Guattari and Machinic Animism |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2011 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Angela Melitopoulos , Maurizio Lazzarato |
Production country | FR |
Run time | 69 min. |
A visual research project reexamining the ideas of the philosopher and psychiatrist Félix Guattari on animismic culture as a form of collective subjectivity (collective assemblages of enunciation), as well as the time in his life when he tried to lay a foundation for a fundamental critique of modernist concepts. In an interview recorded during the Gulf War (1991), Guattari spoke of the emergence of a geography of resistance that arises especially where postcolonial systems are declining. A new de-centered, animistic subjectivity is central for rethinking “the Object, the Other as a potential bearer of dimensions of partial subjectivity, if need be through neurotic phenomena, religious rituals, or aesthetic phenomena."