This link explains in considerable detail,
http://www.rhizomes.net/issue11/genosko.htmlThe most relevant sections,
"What Guattari found himself facing was a day in court. His lifelong passion for the work of Kafka was about to be put to the test in a becoming Joseph K. The 'ridiculous side' of the charge began with his return from a conference in Montréal, Canada in April 1973. Upon return to his flat he was met by several patients sitting on the stairs awaiting their consultations, and his door padlocked shut. His flat on the rue de Condé had been trashed by police executing one of dozens of warrants for the seizure of Recherches #12. All the while, Guattari wrote, it had been available for weeks in bookstores around Paris: 'When I protested these proceedings to the examining judge, I must say that he remained largely perplexed. I thought then that there had been a mistake and that the case would be adjourned sine die.' No such indefinite adjournment would be offered. Anyway, it may be regained from The Trial that certain drawbacks, the prevention of actual acquittal, most certainly, are entailed by preventing the trial to progress toward the accused's sentencing. Limbo of a sort described in these very terms by Deleuze, but with reference to the passage from disciplinary to control societies: an endless postponement to which Guattari's case does not accede. Guattari stood next to Kafka in this shift, but failed to convince the 'perplexed' judge who was stuck in the disciplinary society. Hence, the fine of 600FF.
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Guattari explained that at the time 'among the things that most shocked the judges was one of the most original parts of this work – a discussion of masturbation. I think that a work devoted to homosexuality in a more or less traditional manner would have had no difficulty. What shocked perhaps was the expression of sexuality going in all directions. And then there were the illustrations – they were what set it off.' From masturbation to pedophilia, the issue still attracts censorship, either by force of law, or as a cost of doing business on the Internet where international police and judicial forces have been assembled against 'pedophilia', often regardless of critical content or context, for better and for worse.
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In March of 1973, CERFI – Centre d'Etudes, de Recherches et de Formation Institutionnelles – published in its house journal Recherches a special issue (#12) devoted to homosexuality in France, 'Trois milliards de pervers: Grande Encyclopédie des Homosexualités'. The director of the publication was the late French activist-intellectual Félix Guattari. Those familiar with Guattari's writings will know that his 'Liminaire' ['Introduction'] to the special issue has been reprinted here and there and translated into English, with additions, in The Guattari Reader. The outline of events that followed the issue's publication are well-known and summarized in a footnote: 'The March issue…had been seized, and Félix Guattari, as the director of publications, was fined 600 francs for affronting public decency. Number 12 …was judged to constitute a "detailed display of depravities and sexual deviations," and the "libidinous exhibition of a perverted minority." All copies of the issue were ordered destroyed.'"
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