Chaosmosis

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Chaosmosis is Felix Guattari’s latest book. Published in 1992, in this book Felix Guattari goes back to the question of subjectivity. This subjectivity can be broken down into four dimensions.

• Material, energetic, and semiotic Fluxes

• Concrete and abstract machinic Such as the engineand the typewriter

• Virtual Universes of value, though the concept is directed towards a recognition of their role in the production of subjectivity

• Finite existential Territories, which are psychological, affective spaces created by an experience or situation (Gacy, 2004)

Further on in his book we come across the notion of “aesthetic machinism”. He claims that machines are more than merely technology and are now a dynamic entity. He opposes with this notion structure in society and uses it to describe the creation of subjectivity (Gacy, 2004).

References

Gacy, M. (2004). Chaosmosis: An Ethico Aesthetic Paradigm. Found 18 oktober 2011, at http://thinkingculture.blogspot.com/2004/09/chaosmosis-ethico-aesthetic-paradigm.html

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