Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Abstract

Drawing from psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Nietzchean theories, Deleuze and Guattari maintain that the channeling and control of the flows of desire by social regimes produce reactive ways of being, thoughts, feelings, and practices, or subjectivity. This intervention allows for a productive consideration of the youth's understandings of their practices of violence and substance abuse, as I have to come understand that the frustration of their international movements by the increased policing at the U.S.-Mexico border has aggravated their substance abuse and violence.