ABSTRACT
Weinstein and Guattari's work with students and inmates, collegial staff, and psychotics at La Borde and Purdue, Sartre's 'serialized' life of the practico-inert was profoundly disrupted. Psychotics are in dialogue with a world that is not wholly imaginary and delirious but manifesting in banal, quotidian, social, and material practices of the type Weinstein, following Samuel Alexander, depicts in Finite Perfection as fundamental arts. Following Samuel Alexander, Weinstein sees art as a 'mixing of mind and material' and distinguishes between different arts according to the nature of the material as well as how the mind 'arranges' it. Although, for Alexander, these definitions were constructed to privilege the fine arts, Weinstein extends his insights in directions more conducive to Guattari's practice. This chapter looks Weinstein's pedagogy in the context of the seminar as an institutional subject group subtending a disruptive and transformative practice in America's heartland. Weinstein's pedagogical practice and Guattari's conceptual innovation is no better than Barthes's celebration of the seminar.
