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As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its
grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the
capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics
involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the
“pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away
from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening,
destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This
dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the
colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the
conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a
reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart
of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of
extraction for capitalism. Drawing on examples from across the
Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines
the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary
governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at
the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme
conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic
subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalized
communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.
This crucial book by one of the most prominent
intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to
anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.
As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its
grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the
capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics
involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the
“pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away
from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening,
destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This
dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the
colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the
conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a
reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart
of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of
extraction for capitalism. Drawing on examples from across the
Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines
the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary
governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at
the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme
conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic
subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalized
communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.
This crucial book by one of the most prominent
intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to
anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.
Molecular Revolution in BrazilFelix Guattari and Suely
Rolniktranslated by Karel Clapshow and Brian HolmesYes, I believe
that there is a multiple people, a people of mutants, a people of
potentialities that appears and disappears, that is embodied in
social, literary, and musical events.... I think that we're in a
period of productivity, proliferation, creation, utterly fabulous
revolutions from the viewpoint of this emergence of a people.
That's molecular revolution: it isn't a slogan or a program, it's
something that I feel, that I live....--from Molecular Revolution
in BrazilFollowing Brazil's first democratic election after two
decades of military dictatorship, French philosopher Felix Guattari
traveled through Brazil in 1982 with Brazilian psychoanalyst Suely
Rolnik and discovered an exciting, new political vitality. In the
infancy of its new republic, Brazil was moving against traditional
hierarchies of control and totalitarian regimes and founding a
revolution of ideas and politics. Molecular Revolution in Brazil
documents the conversations, discussions, and debates that arose
during the trip, including a dialogue between Guattari and Brazil's
future President Luis Ignacia Lula da Silva, then a young
gubernatorial candidate. Through these exchanges, Guattari cuts
through to the shadowy practices of globalization gone awry and
boldly charts a revolution in practice.Assembled and edited by
Rolnik, Molecular Revolution in Brazil is organized thematically;
aphoristic at times, it presents a lesser-known, more overtly
political aspect of Guattari's work. Originally published in Brazil
in 1986 as Micropolitica: Cartografias do desejo, the book became a
crucial reference for political movements in Brazil in the 1980s
and 1990s. It now provides English-speaking readers with an
invaluable picture of the radical thought and optimism that lies at
the root of Lula's Brazil. Felix Guattari (1930-19920), post-'68
French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus
(with Gilles Deleuze), The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext(e),
2006), and other books. Semiotext(e) has published the first two
volumes of his complete essays, Chaosophy (1995) and Soft
Subversions (1996), and will publish the final volume, Chaos and
Complexity, in 2008. Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst, cultural
critic, and curator who lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She
was a close collaborator of Guattari during her exile in Paris from
the military dictatorship in Brazil."
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