"The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd." ("Introduction: Rhizome")

(1925-1995) (1930-1992)
(Off-and-on collaboration roughly between 1972 and 1991)

D & G collaborations, according (mostly) to Brian Massumi's compiled bibliography appended to his translation of Mille Plateaux (pp. 579-585):

• Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Vol. 1. First published in 1972, appearing in English translation in 1977.
• Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. First published in 1975, appearing in English translation in 1986.
• Nomadology: The War Machine. Released by Semiotext(e) in 1986, as a translation of Chapter 12 of A Thousand Plateaus.
• On the Line. Released by Semiotext(e) in 1983, as a translation of "Rhizome" and "Politics" (respectively, Chapter 1 of A Thousand Plateaus and Chapter 9 of Dialogues).
• A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Vol. 2. First published in 1980, appearing in English translation in 1987.
• What is Philosophy? First published in 1991, appearing in English translation in 1996.

Additionally, there are a number of essays and journal articles, most of which are translations or abridgements of various chapters of these books.

A friend has given me this advice: "To get a grip on the metaphysics of schizoanalysis, you need to understand the following concepts from Anti-Oedipus:

- Desiring-production
- The 'World-Egg' (Monde-Oeuf)
- BwO (Body without Organs)
- Machines (Producing Machines, Desiring Machines, etc etc)
- Territorialization/Deterritorialization
- The metaphysical critique of Freud implied by Schizoanalysis

This means: read Foucault's Introduction and all of Chapter One of A-O, along with Chapter 2 Sections 4&6, as much or as little of Chapter 3 as you like to read psychoanalytic theory getting pasted, and all of chapter 4. Seriously then consider attacking Mille Plateaux as you will otherwise have to re-read A-O when you do get around to it."

Also of interest, there are Michael Hardt's Capitalism & Schizophrenia reading notes.

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Things:

"Introduction: Rhizome." A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Vol. 2. Tr. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. 3-25: here.

Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (selections): here.

Secondary:

Michel Foucault, "Preface." Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Vol. 1. Tr. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. xi-xiv: here.

Michael Hardt, "Introduction: Hegel and the Foundations of Poststructuralism." Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. ix-xv: here.

Yet More Things:

A Thousand Plateaus: quotes/excerpts of note

"Repressive Reading: Alasdair Gray's Rhizome-as-Novel": (one draft of many) here.

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