Julian Reid, IR lecturer at the University of Sussex, will look at the differences in theoretical accounts of the relationships between madness and the development of modern regimes of social control. He will think through some of the differences between Foucault's account of the function of madness in the development of disciplinary power, the creation of the asylum etc., and Deleuze and Guattari's account of the function of the schizophrenic in the development of capitalism. What are the differences in the political implications that follow from these two definitive, closely
related, and yet ultimately conflicting accounts of the relation of madness to modern regimes of social control?

Joel Duncan, an activist and former psych patient, will discuss present struggles against de-stigmatisation and violence of "mad" people". He will present Mad Brighton, a social forum occurring in Brighton in the autumn where experiences and dreams of madness will be shared. From The Icarus Project, a community of radical Manic Depressives in the U.S., to Mad Brighton, he will outline the emergence of new social struggles which aim to celebrate the "abnormal" as a site of resistance to social control.