Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, since their productions in the 1960s, have constantly addressed the issue of History and its relationship with becoming or with what they conceptualize as an event. Furthermore, such considerations about the problem of History are commonly accompanied, more or less explicitly, by the authors' considerations about the “current situation” in which they lived. The present research, in this sense, aims to carry out an approach to the concept of Universal History, present in the work Capitalism and Schizophrenia, from a reading in the context of the work. Reading Deleuze and Guattari in conjuncture, however, does not mean analyzing to what extent the conjuncture, as an external factor, is present or reflected in the authors' thinking, with the risk of falling into the cliché of historicism. I propose, in another way, to analyze to what extent, through conceptual creation and, in particular, through the concept of Universal History, Deleuze and Guattari sought to intervene in an untimely way in the historical context in which they lived, allowing us to see something about the conjuncture based on the modalities of their interventions and the way in which the authors deepen, through concepts such as desiring production, becoming-minority and lines of flight, the crisis of what it means to do “analysis of the conjuncture”. Despite intending to encompass the entire work Capitalismo e Schizophrenia, this thesis focuses on the analysis of the first volume of the work - Anti-Oedipus (1972) - laying the foundations for a future continuity of the research in the second volume of the work: A Thousand Plateaus (1982).
Key Words: Capitalism, History, Event, Desire, Revolution