Felix Guattari

philosopher · 25 mentions across 7 readings

In this course

The excerpts provided are too corrupted or fragmented to clearly establish Guattari's specific role in the course readings. From what's legible, Guattari appears as part of the Deleuze-Guattari theoretical partnership, invoked in discussions of vitalism and its material consequences—suggesting his work is being used to theorize how abstract concepts (like vital forces or organizational principles) gain concrete force in systems and bodies. The references seem positioned within debates about biological metaphors and machine logic that would be central to understanding AI and cybernetics through a continental philosophy lens, though the excerpts themselves don't offer sufficient clarity on how his thought specifically anchors the course arguments.

Mentioned in 7 readings

Stephen Zepke

Introduction, Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

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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

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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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Ben Woodard

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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

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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…

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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TESCREAL, Libidinal Materialism, and AGI: Kant, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari; Decoding, Deterritorialization, Capitalism, v. “traditional” culture and identity; Noumenal Materialism: feudal labor to wage-labor to a…Chickenized reverse centaurs, Para, Tuyal, et al. v. Bossware: extractive data labor: Cloudflower, Amazon Mechanical Turk, chatfarms, labelfarms Lab: Generative AI imagemaking, photobashing, improving prompted imagery Reading: Natasha Dow…

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 …

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