Reddit mentions of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)

Deleuze and Guattari demand being read as primary source material. To understand, you must be willing to ditch your ontological hangups and try to make the same moves they do. This is exceedingly hard to do at first, and I'm still learning all the time, 2.5 years after I picked up Anti-Oedipus on a lark and struggled to break page five. Without reservation, they are the most important thinkers to how I live my life, having studied philosophy an undergrad and reading on my own four years after. Kant interested me, D&G move me. Or the me assemblages.

I recommend reading A Thousand Plateaus, Nietzsche and Philosophy, and Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. ATP is their most famous work, and it will be much easier to understand the philosophical concepts Deleuze picks up by understanding his biggest influences, Nietzsche and Spinoza.

But I learned a lot from secondary material, and I think it's a necessity for almost everyone that isn't a savant, doesn't have a teacher, or isn't a Frenchman that lived through May of '68. Not all of it was useful, not all of them were good readings, but my D&G wouldn't exist without them. Some helpful links

What did Deleuze mean by "becoming-molecular a very brief introduction to their ontological orientation. To understand their politics, you need to understand how their ontology.

Can You Feel It? Deleuze & Guattari, Schizoanalysis, Affect[https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2016/05/19/can-you-feel-it-deleuze-guattari-schizoanalysis-affect/) a 2 hour podcast that uses D&G to analyze capitalism.

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia Massumi is the reason I can read A Thousand Plateaus in English in the first place, as well as an excellent Deleuze scholar in his own right.

How to begin reading Deleuze some advice from a very good Deleuze scholar, John Protevi.

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus a very good secondary source I'm using to work through AO. Ian Buchanan is very good.

Daniel Coffeen's Reading the Way of Things: Coffeen provided my introduction to Deleuze and I loved this book as a Deleuzian reading in action. It's short, not expressly political, and a very easy read. It's a very good introduction for those with little to no philosophical experience. Also it's by Zero Books, which should carry some cachet here.


I don't care for DeLanda, even though he may be the most popular Deleuze lecturer. Spend time on youtube as well. There is an entire channel devoted to D&G called Actual/Virtual Journal.

Also, I will answer any questions anyone has about Deleuze or Deleuze and Guattari to the best of my abilities. I love them passionately.