This new edition of Soft Subversions expands, reorganizes, and developsthe original 1996 publication, offering a carefully organized arrangement of essays, interviews, and short texts that present a fuller scope to Guattari's thinking from1977 to 1985. This period encompasses what Guattari himself called the "WinterYears" of the early 1980s--the ascent of the Right, the spread of environmentalcatastrophe, the rise of a disillusioned youth with diminished prospects for careerand future, and the establishment of a postmodernist ideology that offered solutionstoward adaptation rather than change--a period with discernible echoes twenty yearslater. Following Semiotext(e)'s release last season of the new, expanded edition ofChaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972--1977, this book makes Guattari's central ideasand concepts fully available in the format that had been best suited to Guattari'stemperament: the guerrilla-styled intervention of the short essay and interactivedialogue. This edition includes such previously unpublished, substantive texts as"Institutional Intervention" and "About Schools," along with newtranslations of "War, Crisis, or Life" and "The Nuclear State,"interviews and essays on a range of topics including adolescence and Italy, dreamanalysis and schizo-analysis, Marcel Proust and Jimmy Carter, as well as invaluableautobiographical documents such as "I Am an Idea-Thief" and "SoWhat."