Joeseph has a cool post on Guattari over at Fractal Ontology. I like this bit:
The strange power of Guattari’s writings is such that his works are less collections than whirlwinds, less toolboxes than roaring vortexes one is apt to be drawn violently towards: to study Guattari is neither a coincidence nor an accident (for an English academic) but rather a symptom, even a political symptom. Perhaps simply an indication of the self-destructive desire inherent to global capitalism in which the dissemination of essentially “anti-capitalist†literature is not simply allowed but in fact widely promoted — the faint glimmer of global Renaissance.
Theory as symptom of capitalism’s self destruction? I like it…