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Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalytic philosophy unearths a power of delirium to liberate a life. Their method is pragmatic, problematizing and political because it locates paths of release from entrenched and powerful structures, which constrain possibilities for diversifying existence and limit the creative potential for innovation. Literature is a natural ally of schizoanalysis, in so far as both are involved in the diagnosis of social malaise and the creative labor of the invention of alternative worlds. Literature often imagines characters involved in finding lines of flight from the problematic situations that confine them, and so can open up for the reader new ways of understanding worldly situations as assemblages of desire and power, and new ways of experiencing their own being in time as a moment of actual capture and a set of virtual escape strategies.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137453693_8

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