Deleuze and the Digital: On the Materiality of Algorithmic Infrastructures.
In his short and often quoted essay 'Postscript on the Societies of Control', Gilles Deleuze famously describes the structures of power in the dawning twenty-first century as driven by 'machines of a third type, computers', as novel and predominantly digital infrastructures. In fact, from a Deleuzia...
| Published in: | Deleuze & Guattari Studies Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 593 - 610 |
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Nov2021
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