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I introduce the practice of somaterapia (somatherapy), an eclectic synthesis of Gestalt therapy, capoeira Angola, anti-psychiatry, collective trust exercises, radical pedagogy, and anarchism developed as an anti-fascist practice aimed at healing the violence of oppressive forms of social organisation as they manifest in bodies. Somaterapia takes an immanent and materialist view on what constitutes a body, eschewing mind-body dualisms and transcendent forms of organisation in lieu of an affective somatic reality. The fascisms somaterapia thus seeks to eliminate are not just the macro-fascisms of the political milieu, but also the micro-fascisms that stem from and reciprocally enrich these, forming blockages of libidinal energy or tesaõ that affect everything from our thoughts and our posture to how we treat ourselves and how we treat each other. In this sense somaterapia has much in common with the enactivist view of cognition. Like somaterapia, enactivism sees brains, bodies and environments as complex, reciprocally presupposing imbrications of nested autonomous systems sustaining themselves through the maintenance and exploration of ongoing adaptive tensions between self-production and self-distinction. Viewing somaterapia through the lens of enactivism thus allows us to potentially enrich the anti-fascist potential of this revolutionary practice. 1

This intra-view explores a number of productive junctions between contemporary Deleuzoguattarian and new materialist praxes via a series of questions and provocations. Productive tensions are explored via questions of epistemological, ontological, ethical, and political intra-sections as well as notions of difference, transversal contamination, ecosophical practices, diffraction, and, lastly, schizoanalysis. Various irruptions around biophilosophy, transduction, becomology, cartography, power relations, hyperobjects as events, individuation, as well as dyschronia and disorientation, take the discussion further into the wild pedagogical spaces that both praxes have in common.

Explores Deleuze and Guattari's own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophyThis collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also more broadly in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State. Both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May '68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy. However, they never explicitly sustained a discussion of anarchism in their work. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and they referred to in very different senses throughout their writings. This is the first collection to bring Deleuze and Guattari together with anarchism in a focused and sustained way.Key FeaturesThe only book to focus exclusively on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and anarchismIncludes an anthropological perspective, a line of enquiry pioneered by Pierre Clastres, referred to by Deleuze and Guattari and recently renewed by contemporary anthropologists such as Eduardo Vivieros de Castro and Eduardo KohnProvides historical overviews alongside current anarchist applications of Deleuze and Guattari's workContributorsJesse Cohn, Purdue University Northwest, USA. Aragorn Eloff, independent researcher and Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies in Africa.Elmo Feiten, independent researcher. Chantelle Gray van Heerden, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. Christoph Hubatschke, University of Vienna, Austria. Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University, USA.Gregory Kalyniuk, independent researcher.Thomas Nail, University of Denver, USA. Paul Raekstad, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Andrew Stones, University of Warwick, UK. Alejandro de la Torre Hernández, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, University of Texas, Austin. Natascia Tose, independent researcher. Elizabet Vasileva, Loughborough University, UK. "