Deleuze-Guattari: typewriter.

GillesdeleuzefoulixGuattari François Dosse’s book, starts from a great idea: in his “ Cross biography “(This is the subtitle), he proposes to show how central concepts at Deleuze and Guattari, such as” flow “, of “ leak line “, of “ become ” Or “ collective enunciation arrangement “, Could be produced from their own writing practice, a writing to two which gave four books: Capitalism and schizophrenia, t. 1: Anti-Oedipus (1972), Kafka. For a minor literature (1975), capitalism and schizophrenia, t. 2: A thousand trays (1980) and What is philosophy ? (1991). F. Dosse’s ambition is to “ Trace this unique adventure by its propulsive force and its ability to bring out a kind of “ third man “, Fruit of the union of the two authors “(P. 11), by confronting this enigma:” know how it works “, To use an expression that Deleuze and Guattari affect, how two desires to think and write are argued, which certainly do not come from nowhere, which already have a very singular trajectory, but which, is” cutting “One,” metamorphosis One with each other, one in the other. How does it work, this Deleuze-Guattari machine, what cut and what flow production has produced ? What are the effects of thought, and the practical, political effects, which are no longer neither deleuze nor Guattari, but deleuze And Guattari ? Let’s say it at the outset: it is not certain that this difficult business, to think of the arrangement of the deleuze-guattari speech, managed to unravel the enigma. The pages devoted to the collaboration of the two thinkers are ultimately few: the prologue, the conclusion, and certain passages where we learn how Deleuze put to work a Guattari whose activity of reflection, and political commitments, have always been intense, but which was complained of its difficulties in a real writing work itself. Weekly work meetings, exchanges of corrected and rewritten texts, intellectual and emotional complicity are certainly mentioned ; But we feel at the same time that there would be more to do to untangle the sons of conceptual creation for two (for example on a book like theAnti-oedipwhich nevertheless occupies a place of choice in the project of F. Dosse), and that perhaps nothing else can be done only to meditate on the works themselves, to see how they are still productive today.

The book of F. Dosse nevertheless has the merit of putting an end to the idea, which has been able to go through certain spirits (purists ?), of “ disguatize »The Deleuzian thought: the challenge of the Oedipus and a certain” family »Freudian psychoanalysis ; the development of the concept of “ machine “Design against that of” structure Significant (the unconscious, as it is crossed by socio-economic processes, is a production plant, rather than an organized theater of meanings to be interpreted) ; The thought of “ transversality »To connect psychiatry and politics ; The figure of the schizophrenic to theorize the body without organs and the lines of leak (the body of the schizophrenic is thought, from A. Artaud, as a fluid, undifferentiated surface, in which are organized and disorganized the arrangements, the flow circulation), all these elements are all contributions from Guattari (Deleuze did not hide his discomfort in front of “ crazy “, And admitted, as a challenge or annoyance, never met schizophrenic). Guattari cannot therefore be considered only as the provider of strong intuitions, original ideas, that Deleuze, thanks to his high mastery of the history of philosophy, put in shape. Certain statements could certainly accredit this idea: according to one of the numerous interviews carried out by Dosse to document his biography, “ Deleuze said that Félix was finding him diamonds and that he was the tailor. So he only had to send him the texts as he wrote them and that he arranged them, that’s what happened (P. 18). In truth, as F. Dosse declares in Chapter 10 (in a part entitled “ A two -voice work device “),” The question of knowing “who wrote” is not relevant, as the two authors have thought together their concepts during their epistolary exchanges and their work sessions (P. 232).

To take the measure of this intertwined work (GillesdeleuzefoulixGuattari Any attached, inseparable), F. Dosse chooses to analyze first the singular trajectory of each of them (“ I. Plys: parallel biographies ), Then their common becoming from their meeting in 1969 (“ II. Deplics: Cross biographies ” And “ III. Overpisation: 1980-2007 »).

Guattari’s intellectual and political training was done within groups: Trotskyist organizations ; THE Cerfigroup of social science research created by him ; The Borde Clinic, a true crucible of psychiatric practices and reflections with Jean Oury. But a singular figure, which haunts the first two parts of the work of F. Dosse, will have marked Guattari: that of Master Lacan, ambivalent figure whose heritage he wants to assume and stand out definitively. De Deleuze emerges a politically less committed portrait, even if he was one of the few teachers of the Department of Philosophy of Lyon to publicly support, in May 68, students in the street: renowned for masterful monographs in the history of philosophy (on Hume, Kant, and especially Nietzsche, Bergson and Spinoza), Deleuze is, in a very particular style, maker “From lessons, which he prepares carefully and brings to life, especially in Vincennes, in small rooms that are full to crack. But we will especially be struck by Deleuze’s ability to link strong friendships: for example, the unwavering link with François Châtelet, to which F. Dosse devotes sensitive pages (“ Their complicity is also there, on the ground of suffering, of a body that lacks air », P. 417) ; Friendship with Elias Sambar, in her pro-Palestinian commitment ; Or again, the decisive meeting with Foucault, their common esteem, and their emotional and theoretical distance (through distinction, even opposition, desire and pleasure, desire being valued by Deleuze as a fully productive process, whose pleasures can be so many obstacles).

But beyond the groups and individuals, there remains an event of the cross biography of Deleuze and Guattari whose crucial role F. Dosse shows the crucial role: May 68, which establishes – F. Dosse borrowing the formula from M. de Certeau – “ an introductory breakup ». The Deleuze-Guattari thought, thought of the singularities arranged (the “ And “Against the” East ), From the constitution of groups, their business of “ decoding “(Analysis and contestation of codes), their practice of” deterritorialization Ideas and practices, is thus explained as a thought born of May 68, but also in a sense as a thought of This event, thought of the anonymous event by which subjectivities in networks are constituted.

To event May 68, therefore responds, in the field of thought, the Deleuze-Guattari event: the book of F. Dosse, from anecdotal to the conceptual, shows its genesis and the effects, and makes you want, if necessary, to immerse yourself, or to immerse yourself, in this work in progress of the Deleuze-Guattari thought.