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Welcome to The Ancient Dog. Today, we step into a 1992 seminar at the Université de Paris VIII for an intimate masterclass with Félix Guattari. The director of La Borde clinic and co-author of Anti-Oedipus joins us, not as a detached philosopher, but as an activist mapping how subjectivity is forged, broken, and remade.
Across five lessons, Guattari dismantles the myth of the "natural" self:
You Are Not Born With a Self: Subjectivity isn't an essence; it is manufactured by the institutions, media, and machines surrounding us.
What a Machine Really Is: Technology is just a subset of the machine. Any assemblage that produces difference—a family, a protest, a clinic—is a "machine."
Map, Don't Diagnose: Through schizoanalysis, we move beyond Freud and Lacan to map subjectivity across four dimensions: flows, machinic lines, existential territories, and universes of value.
Chaosmosis — The Creative Abyss: Psychosis, art, and philosophy share a "chaosmic" ground where coordinates dissolve. The challenge is not avoiding this abyss, but learning to navigate it.
Art Is the Paradigm: Our environmental, social, and mental crises are one. Guattari’s ecosophy calls for a practice that coordinates these three ecologies, using art as the vital model for change.
Guattari urges us to see subjectivity not as something we have, but as a process we are collectively building.
Is this real? That’s AI magic. 🤖✨ I use generative tools to breathe life into these "what if" moments, bringing icons of the past to life. If you want more legends talking shop, SUBSCRIBE and join the pack! 🐾
Who should take the podium next? Let me know in the comments. 👇
#FelixGuattari #Chaosmosis #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Schizoanalysis #Ecosophy #FrenchTheory #Deleuze #MentalEcology
References: This video is a dramatized synthesis of Félix Guattari’s Chaosmosis (1992). It is a fictional reconstruction of his voice and seminar setting, intended to make his core concepts accessible while remaining faithful to his philosophical framework.
What other historical thinker do you think would translate well into this "masterclass" format?"
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Welcome to The Ancient Dog. Today, we step into a 1992 seminar at the Université de Paris VIII for an intimate masterclass with Félix Guattari. The director of La Borde clinic and co-author of Anti-Oedipus joins us, not as a detached philosopher, but as an activist mapping how subjectivity is forged, broken, and remade.
Across five lessons, Guattari dismantles the myth of the "natural" self:
You Are Not Born With a Self: Subjectivity isn't an essence; it is manufactured by the institutions, media, and machines surrounding us.
What a Machine Really Is: Technology is just a subset of the machine. Any assemblage that produces difference—a family, a protest, a clinic—is a "machine."
Map, Don't Diagnose: Through schizoanalysis, we move beyond Freud and Lacan to map subjectivity across four dimensions: flows, machinic lines, existential territories, and universes of value.
Chaosmosis — The Creative Abyss: Psychosis, art, and philosophy share a "chaosmic" ground where coordinates dissolve. The challenge is not avoiding this abyss, but learning to navigate it.
Art Is the Paradigm: Our environmental, social, and mental crises are one. Guattari’s ecosophy calls for a practice that coordinates these three ecologies, using art as the vital model for change.
Guattari urges us to see subjectivity not as something we have, but as a process we are collectively building.
Is this real? That’s AI magic. 🤖✨ I use generative tools to breathe life into these "what if" moments, bringing icons of the past to life. If you want more legends talking shop, SUBSCRIBE and join the pack! 🐾
Who should take the podium next? Let me know in the comments. 👇
#FelixGuattari #Chaosmosis #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Schizoanalysis #Ecosophy #FrenchTheory #Deleuze #MentalEcology
References: This video is a dramatized synthesis of Félix Guattari’s Chaosmosis (1992). It is a fictional reconstruction of his voice and seminar setting, intended to make his core concepts accessible while remaining faithful to his philosophical framework.
What other historical thinker do you think would translate well into this "masterclass" format?".
