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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

philosopher · 8 mentions across 2 readings

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Deleuze and Guattari provide the course's theoretical vocabulary for thinking abstract machines—material configurations that operate through creative, vital processes rather than predetermined logic—and they frame the foundational question of how systems generate experience and deviation rather than pure control. Their concept of the abstract machine allows the readings to move beyond deterministic accounts of algorithmic governance, suggesting that matter itself possesses generative capacities that resist total calibration. They also serve as a philosophical touchstone for aesthetics and critique, invoked to locate conditions of freedom and difference within systems that appear to foreclose them.

Mentioned in 2 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 …“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 …

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Friedrich Nietzsche 5Gilles Deleuze 4Baruch Spinoza 4Henri Bergson 3Immanuel Kant 2Inna Semetsky 1Linus Palmås 1Felix Guattari 1Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1Andy Warhol 1Francis Bacon 1Jackson Pollock 1Marcel Duchamp 1

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