Chaosmosis
From Geography
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).
Chaos also implies that space is not striated, but smooth. Chaos is not organized, does not belong to the dimension of being, there is no principle or finality in it. Constancy and oneness are left behind. Instead Chaos implies decenteredness, mutation, unfolding, immanence, contingency and can be seen in the dimension of becoming building on consistency and multiplicity, such as with nomadology (Doel, 2000, p. 131).
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
Doel, M.A. (2000). Un-glunking geography. Spatial science after Dr. Seuss and Gilles Deleuze. In Crang, M. & Thrift, N. (Eds), Thinking Space. Routledge Taylor &Francis Group: London.
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Created by Jorn Joosten 3027791 & Loek Freulich s3004295, edited by Janna Voelpel, s3015041JannaVolpel 12:43, 7 May 2012 (CEST)
