Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Francis Bacon appears only as a passing reference in these course materials, mentioned tangentially without sustained engagement in the excerpts provided. Without clearer context from the readings themselves, it's difficult to determine whether the course invokes Bacon the early modern philosopher of empiricism and method, or Bacon the twentieth-century painter, or some other figure entirely. The excerpts focus instead on Deleuze, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and questions of art, becoming, and production—frameworks that might engage Bacon's thought, but do so implicitly rather than explicitly here.

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Stephen Zepke

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

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This strange atheism that in Spinoza never stops speaking of God, and in Deleuze and Guattari never stops seeking to become adequate to becoming itself, will be the consistent aim of a practical philosophy. Philosophy, like art, is a constr…Finally we have arrived at what has no doubt been a puzzling absence to this introduction. Art, I mean art as it is normally understood, pictures and things. Of course it was never absent, because the path so far taken was necessary in orde…Deleuze’s reading of Nietzsche is in the spirit of Zarathustra’s words to his disciples: “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”[^1] Nietzsche does not want followers, he wants those capable of creating somet…

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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The Hollerith Tabulator, IBM, Technocracy, Inc, Howard Scott, M. King Hubbert, Joshua Haldeman, the North American Technate, and Elon Musk; Project Phoenix, Arpanet, and the birth of the internet in counterinsurgency; “Feedback Mechanisms a…

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