Felix Guattari

philosopher · 28 mentions across 7 readings

In this course

Guattari is a French theorist known for developing, alongside Deleuze, a materialist critique of capitalism and subjectivity that moves beyond psychoanalysis toward machinic and molecular frameworks. The course readings invoke Guattari's work on "Molecular Revolution" and his critique of "Integrated World Capitalism" to ground discussions of how capitalism operates not just at the level of visible institutions but through the automation and segmentation of collective life, bodies, and desire itself. His thinking enables the seminar to theorize AI and cybernetics not as neutral technical systems but as extensions of capitalist machinery that produces particular forms of subjectivity and control.

Mentioned in 7 readings

Stephen Zepke

Art as Abstract Machine

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But let’s step back from this complexity that will nevertheless remain the condition of our investigation. We don’t want to crash and burn, not yet. Let’s try taking one question at a time. If our title is an imperative what does it bid us …But before we get into the intricacies of this technical philosophical terminology we should remind ourselves that we are speaking of practical matters, of machines and their constructions. Building an abstract machine is more DIY than tech…Expression and construction are the doubled dimensions of art as abstract machine. The abstract machine expresses the autogenetic and infinite processuality of its real conditions (the infinite, a cosmic world), which appear as the construc…

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Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)

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apparatuses so blended with the capitalist project that it has become a political project, a gigantic "abstract machine" made of binary machines run by the Empire, a new form of political sovereignty, which must be called an abstract machin…"If motorized machines constituted the second age of the technical machine, cybernetic and informational machines form a third age that reconstructs a generalized regime of subjection: recurrent and reversible 'humans-machines systems' repl…and of groups that one can come up with an intelligence of the intermediary and non-mixed being that is the technological individual... The dialogue of capital and labor is false, because it is in the past. The socialization of the means of…

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Félix Guattari

Integrated World Capitalism and Molecular Revolution

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Integrated World Capitalism and Molecular Revolution by Félix Guattari This text was presented by Felix Guattari at the Conference on Information and/as New Spaces of Liberty (CINEL), which took place in Rio de Janeiro in the Fall of 1981.…Between these extremes is a general disciplining of collective hard work and a partition—the establishment of spaces of global segmentarisation. The free movement of goods and people is now reserved exclusively for the new aristocracies of …And thus it is up to each of us to determine to what extent, however small, we can work to update the policies of these revolutionary machines—for they are us and we are them—we are all theoretical, libidinal, and aesthetic machines—subject…

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Ben Woodard

from Slime Dynamics

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James Brusseau

Deleuzes Postscript on the Societies of Control Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics

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Brunton, F. and H. Nissenbaum. 2016. Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest. Boston: MIT Press. Cohen, J. 2018. ‘Biopolitical Public Domain: The Legal Construction of the Surveillance Economy’, Philosophy & Technology 31 (2): …Taylor, L. 2015. ‘No Place to Hide? The Ethics and Analytics of Tracking Mobility Using Mobile Phone Data’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775815608851. Trout, M. 2017. ‘Big Data and Retai…

Mark Fisher

SF Capital

2

If you imagine for even a moment that positing capitalism as "the exterior limit of all societies" as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari claimed in Anti-Oedipus is fanciful, think about the interdictions on interest and usury in Islamic and …It's of course no accident that the current power elite (Spielberg, Lucas, Gates, Blair) belonged to the so-called counterculture of the 1960s. Capital, needless to say, is indifferent to individual human motivation, but happy slaves are be…

Zero HP Lovecraft

The Gig Economy

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and Guattari, by which I mean I play first person shooters while the pdf is up on my other monitor, but this job presented a unique opportunity over and above making lewd jokes about rhizomatic assemblages on Discord. When dayjobs force me …