ABSTRACT
The associated practices of 'habituation' and becoming 'habituated' work to essentialise the ability, the willingness and the need to be culturally adaptive in a changing world. In the engagements with bringing madness to life in terms of affect and process, emphasis was given to Deleuze and Guattari's insistence that the body-without-organs is not an enemy of the organs as such, it is the enemy of the way in which those organs are organised, it is the organism itself and how it is given life through its very organisation that creates these enmities. It is at this point that author concerns to do with friendship in terms of madness and the posthuman can be brought life. It seems that understandings of friendship exist within the parameters of humanist forms of thinking; friendship is imbricated with and informed by feelings, emotional dispositions, ethical substance and obligatory demands upon the each and others that are constitutive of that body known as 'friendship'.
