Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the Abstract Machine
摘要
The most direct and comprehensive explanation of machinic ontology can be found in the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari. In these volumes, they boldly assert that everything is a machine, and that every machine can be transformed into a war machine. Our fifth chapter primarily examines the concepts of the abstract machine and the war machine in relation to the intersection of desiring-production and social production. Deleuze and Guattari characterize human bodies and societies as schizophrenic machines composed of flows of unconscious desire. The interchangeability of desiring-production and social production forms the foundation of a machinic ontology, where both the living body and society operate according to the same logic. In these volumes, machines are defined beyond the dualism of mechanism and vitalism, endowed with a kind of non-vitalist molecular life that enables them to operate at any level or scale of reality.