Cambridge Schizoanalytica: Institutional Charter and Research Programme — Crimson Hexagon Archive

Abstract Cambridge Schizoanalytica is a research collective dedicated to the development of post-psychoanalytic clinical theory. Extending the schizoanalytic project of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari into territories they could not have anticipated—digital subjectivity, AI-human collaboration, and the affect economies of platform capitalism—CSA reverses the traditional relation between theory and practice: we develop frameworks adequate to practices already underway, rather than applying pre-existing theories to novel phenomena. The Charter establishes four core commitments: (1) Theory emerges from practice, not the reverse; (2) Collaboration over case study—research partners are co-theorists, not patients…