I try to steer clear of these “What kind of dumbass” quizzes, but I’m actually glad I took this one found via Jean, What 20th century theorist are you? Because it turned me on to a couple dudes who I have never heard of before, but who sound like they are right up my alley…

“You are Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari! That’s right! You’re two people! Actually, you’re probably a lot more than that, because you argued that all of us are, fundamentally, schizophrenics. Your notion of the rhizome is far too popular amoung people who fantasize about digital technology. You are, however, both dead.”

Here’s my first page of resources found about them.

HOLY CRAP! This thing about schizophrenia is so good I almost threw up while reading it!

Literally, the fractal mind. A logos that affirms multiplicity and the occupation of all possible points. The schizophrenic is like the electron : if we predict the position, we cannot predict the velocity ; if we predict the velocity, we cannot predict the position. Like a nomad travelling through smooth space, the schizophrenic, like the electron in an electron cloud, may appear anywhere within the field, occuping all positions while singularly fluctuating between positions aleatorily. Schizophrenia is a Cageian simultaneity of happenings : the nose runs, the mouth babbles, the hands fiddle, the eyes roll, the feet shuffle, the diaphragm laughs or hiccups, the anus fars, the Eucalyptus adds its scent to the moment, the moon at that angle in the sky … Schizophrenia is a process of compiling lists and letting go of syntax. Social schizophrenia is a simultaneity of spontaneities, a flux of ad-hoc organizings of activity, a surrealist engagement of “collective self-management” as the transtruction [ construction - deconstruction process] of dissipative structures. All of this is distinguished from clinical schizophrenia, which is alienated, repressed schizophrenia isolated from desiring-production and collective creativity. Liberated schizophrenia is schizophrenia that has come into its own as an Escherian, topological celebration of fractal generativity!