Guattari is an important and rich thinker, but he seems to succumb to the poststructuralist illusion that one must make use of obscure writing in order to produce creative thinking. There are many thinkers who have explicated complex issues without resorting to this sort of writing: Freud, Marx, de Man, Kant, Aristotle, come to mind. It is unfortunate that Guattari feels that he must write in a way that makes the issues he grapples with more difficult, rather than less difficult, for us to grasp. This is the reason poststructuralist thought will, unfortunately, NEVER initiate any kind of social change: these thinkers are more interested in aggrandizing themselves through arcane writing directed towards an intellectual elite than they are in creating a dialogue with the rest of us. Guattari is a great theorist and should be read, but he creates an extremely hierachized, stratified space of readers (between the knowers and those who don't know), and this confining structure needs to be explored and called into question.