Felix Guattari was a modernist. He not only liked a lot of modernist artists, but his ‘aesthetic paradigm’ found its generative diagram in modern art. The most important aspect of this diagram was its insistenceon the production of the new, […]
Art as Abstract Machine: Guattari’s Modernist Aesthetics
… In the context of science fiction studies Guattari’s interest in Cyberpunkoffers an alternative to Frederic Jameson’s dismissal of the genre as failing to offer anything more than an uncritical celebration of late-capitalism’s technological ubiquity. In fact Guattari offers hisown
… In this sense the horrible final scene of Janice and UIQ merged in her body and unable to enunciate any stable subjective position, even to a point beyond death, is not a cautionary tale warning us back from the
Accelerationism talk – Rotterdam – 19.4.15 I want to begin by admitting that I am not an Accelerationist. I usually work between the fields of philosophy, art and politics, and my main reference point is the work of Deleuze and
Accelerating Capitalism; the internal tensions of Accelerationism
‘Insurrection is an art.’ (Jacques Camatte, 2011 38) ‘It is as a rupture with the reproduction of what we are that will necessarily form the horizon of our struggles.’ (Endnotes, 2011 31) What is the ‘art’ of insurrection? It encompasses
Schizo-revolutionary Art; Deleuze, Guattari and Communization