This is the first book to undertake an applied postmedia and philosophical approach to the work of Félix Guattari (and through him, Gilles Deleuze). It provides a way to understand philosophically issues in contemporary technology, social life and consumer culture in Asia.
By Joff P. N. Bradley - Foreword by Toshiya Ueno
Introduction: Guattari's Asia
1.Guattari's Japan
2.From the Exterminating Angel to Guattari's Scarecrow
3.The Zerrissenheit of Subjectivity
4.Guattari and Pachinko: deadly ritournelle, himatsubushi-Tinguely machines
5.Schizoanalysis of PokémonGo
6. On the 'schizophrenic taste' for Spinozist weapons
7.Zhibo, Existential Territory, Inter-Media-Mundia: A Guattarian Analysis
8.Machinic Dopamine Junkies and the (Im)Mobile Walk(Less)MAN
9.The schizoanalysis of indifference
10.The Delirious Abstract Machines of Jean Tinguely
11.On the prospects of Virilio's pedagogy of the image
Conclusion