I asked Sydney-based Deleuze expert Andrew Murphie about the collaboration
between Deleuze and Guattari.
He answered:
Well, the most famous bit is the opening of A Thousand Plateaus (p3 ...
or 'Rhizome'). The first few sentences are a almost a kind of manifesto
... but also see Gary Genosko's Felix Guattari: An Abberant
Introdu ction for the way in which some thought that in his
collaboration with Deleuze, Guattari moved away from group work
(pp15-16 and elsewhere). Deleuze makes a long comment on his
collaboration with Guattari in his book with Claire Parnet, Dialogues
(pp16-19).
You may also be interested in a Gary Genosko article on Guattari's
group work - Genosko, Gary (2003) 'Félix Guattari: towards a
transdisciplinary metamethodology' Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical
Humanities 8:1:129-140.
You probably know that Guattari himself wrote a great deal about group
work...
Andrew
--
Here that p.3 quote:
The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of use was several,
there was already quite a crowd. Here we have made use of everything that
came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We have
assigned clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition. Why have we kept our
names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable
in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourselves, but what makes us act, feel
and think. Also because it's nice to talk like everybody else, to say the
sun rises, when everybody knows it's only a matter of speaking. To reach,
not the point where no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of
any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves. Each will
know his own. We have been aided, inspired, multiplied.
D&G