A Love of UIQ

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by Felix Guattari

Type

Stories

Subject

Genre > Science Fiction

Keywords

unmade films, science fiction

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Univocal Publishing

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 220 pages
5 x 8 inches (12.5 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9375619-5-6

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Book Presentation:
Throughout a large part of the 1980s, Félix Guattari, known for his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze and his experimental and groundbreaking practices in psychotherapy, decides to shift his experimental work into a different medium of artistic and creative thought practice: the world of science fiction. Part self-analysis, part cinematic expression of his theoretical work, Guattari’s screenplay merges his theoretical concepts with his passion for comic books, free radio movements, and film. So begins Guattari’s journey to write a screenplay wherein a group of squatters makes contact with a superior intelligence coming from the infinitely small Universe of the Infra-quark (UIQ). Guattari worked feverishly on his film, attempting to secure a budget, traveling to Hollywood, and enlisting the help of American screenwriter Robert Kramer. But the film would never see the light of day. Through the important archival work of artists, Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, Guattari’s script is now published here, for the first time in English.

About the Author:
Félix Guattari (1930–1992) was a French psychoanalyst, activist-intellectual, and philosopher known widely for his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze and Antonio Negri.

Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are co-founders of "Terminal Beach," a cross-media arts platform investigating new configurations of image, sound, text, and spectatorship.

Press Reviews:
"His work has much to offer to today’s discussions of posthumanism and the field of technology studies in general."—Science Fiction Studies