This new edition of <i>Soft Subversions</i> expands, reorganizes, and develops the original 1996 publication, offering a carefully organized arrangement of essays, interviews, and short texts that present a fuller scope to Guattari's thinking from 1977 to 1985. This period encompasses what Guattari himself called the &quot;Winter Years&quot; of the early 1980s&mdash;the imprisonment of Italian radicals, the disillusion with the socialists in power, the backlash against post-'68 thinking, the spread of environmental catastrophe, and the establishment of a postmodernist ideology aimed at adaptation rather than change&mdash;a period with discernible echoes twenty years later.<br /><br />Following Semiotext(e)'s release last season of the new, expanded edition of <i>Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972&ndash;1977,</i> this collection offers some new exciting forays in schizo-analysis, and makes Guattari's central ideas and concepts fully available in the format that had been best suited to Guattari's temperament: the guerrilla-styled intervention of the short essay and interactive dialogue. This edition includes such previously unpublished, substantive texts as &quot;The Schizoanalyses,&quot; &quot;Institutional Intervention,&quot; &quot;Postmodern Deadlock and Post-Media Transition,&quot; &quot;New Spaces of Liberty for Minoritarian Desire,&quot; and &quot;Minority and Terrorism,&quot; along with interviews and essays on a range of topics including adolescence and Italy, dream analysis and schizo-analysis, as well as invaluable autobiographical documents such as &quot;I Am an Idea-Thief&quot; and &quot;So What.&quot;<br /><br /><i>Foreign Agents series<br />Distributed for Semiotext(e)</i>