Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi Bifo, originates in the authors close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattaris writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifos activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s. This biography gains distinction from its keen insight into Guattaris political practice and from a precise understanding of how this practice relates to the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Guattaris writings, alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Thanks to an approach at once personal and theoretically well informed, Bifos biography provides a clear and accessible introduction to Guattaris works. This edition also includes a critical introduction and a 2005 interview with Bifo on a range of topics relating Guattaris works to the current political conjuncture.