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Open or closed?

I’m known as the discourse guy and the theory guy. There’s always this, oh, I bet he’s gonna talk about language and how language does this and that. That’s fair enough. It’s not that I’m only about language, but what I talk and write about is often concerned with language. This is also clear from […]

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All systems go

Okay, so finally, let’s do this. Let’s cover Félix Guattari’s ‘Machine and Structure’, which appears at least in two of his compilations, ‘Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics’ and ‘Psychoanalysis and Transversality: Texts and Interviews 1955–1971’. I’ll be referring to the latter, in case you wonder about the pagination. Now I’ve mentioned all kinds of things […]