“probe-heads” (têtes chercheuses, ATP, 190/232)—steering the world on its “creative flight” (ATP, 190/233). The abstract machine is therefore both vital and material, it exists, Deleuze and Guattari write, as the “life proper to matter as s…What then, to ask the question of aesthetics, are the conditions of this experience? This question calls to account another of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical interlocutors: Kant. Unlike Nietzsche, Spinoza and Bergson however, Kant is …from which an abstract machine departs, following Spinoza’s “war cry” (the phrase is Deleuze’s) “we don’t even know what a body can do” (EPS, 255/234). This introduces another of our constant concerns, how can we create a new body, a new se…
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