Schizoanalysis and Asia

This book is an update, extension and radicalization of Guattaris philosophy of the postmedia. It is the first of its kind to comprehensively apply Guattaris thought on postmedia to post-millennium technological developments. Given the considerable interest in Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuzes work and its influence in Asia and South-East Asia and beyond, the book is a timely contribution and update of Guattaris essential concepts. It offers a fresh approach to applying Guattari and Deleuze to local contexts. Both Felix Guattaris schizoanalysis and Gilles Deleuzes philosophy remain excellent tools to decode the politics of postmedia. The book centres around the influence of Guattaris work on the Japanese archipelago and how Japan itself impacted on the work of Guattari in the 1980s. The book updates Guattaris work and apply it to the problems which are affecting societies in Asia and beyond. It highlights current research on postmedia by scholars who are working to understand how Japanese society is functioning post-Fukushima and how the country continues to toil from the geo-trauma of the real.