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Works that treat desire as production rather than lack
Deleuze and Guattari argue that desire is not the desire for something missing (the psychoanalytic model) but the production of something new. These works share that same affirmative conception of desire: not the absence of the object but the creation of the connection.
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Mille Plateaux
by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
A Thousand Plateaus — the second volume; the rhizome, the body without organs, nomadology; the more philosophically developed and more systematically organized Deleuze-Guattari; read after L'Anti-Œdipe
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Buy on AmazonDifférence et répétition
by Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze's individual masterpiece — the metaphysics of difference without identity; the philosophical foundation that underlies the Guattari collaborations; the central Deleuze text
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Buy on AmazonSurveiller et punir
by Michel Foucault
Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power — the closest parallel to Anti-Oedipus in the post-structuralist field; both analyze how modern power produces subjects rather than repressing them
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Buy on AmazonLa Société du spectacle
by Guy Debord
Debord's Situationist analysis of the spectacle — the political predecessor that Anti-Oedipus develops; the shared diagnosis of capitalism as producing alienated desire rather than satisfying real needs
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Buy on AmazonDe la grammatologie
by Jacques Derrida
The founding deconstructive text — Derrida and Deleuze are the two most important post-structuralist philosophers; they share the rejection of presence and representation but differ on affirmation vs. deconstruction
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Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?
by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
What is Philosophy? — the final Deleuze-Guattari collaboration; concepts, percepts, affects; the most accessible statement of their shared philosophical vision; read last
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Buy on AmazonPour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu
by Antonin Artaud
Artaud's radio play — the source of the 'body without organs' concept; the surrealist/theatre of cruelty original that Deleuze and Guattari transform into a philosophical concept
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Buy on AmazonNietzsche et la philosophie
by Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze's Nietzsche study — the interpretation of Nietzsche through the concepts of force, will to power, and affirmation that underlies the Anti-Oedipus program; the essential Deleuze-Nietzsche connection
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