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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

philosopher · 8 mentions across 2 readings

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Deleuze and Guattari provide the philosophical and conceptual scaffolding for rethinking agency, control, and aesthetics in algorithmic systems, particularly through their notion of the abstract machine as a vital, material force that operates beneath and across computational logic. Their work enables the course to frame AI and machine learning not simply as tools of optimization and control but as systems that mobilize creative, non-human becomings—though the readings suggest this creative potential is increasingly captured and channeled by algorithmic incentive structures. Their engagement with Kant and other philosophers grounds the seminar's concern with aesthetic experience as a site where resistance to total algorithmic determination might still be possible.

Mentioned in 2 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 …“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

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 — ATEK-639/439 — Fall 2025