Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems

Goffey, Andrew; Fuller, Matthew

Abstract

Adopting, as its starting point for the engagement with more-than-human aesthetics, a discussion of the concept of the machinic ‘high’ to be found in the work of Félix Guattari, this chapter proposes an ‘ethico-aesthetic’ engagement with networked digital technologies. It considers the affective texture of human–computer interaction from a point of view that stresses the compulsive, even addictive dimension of media engagement but insists in particular on the complex ‘machinic’ configuration of technological systems. The concept of the ‘pathic’, derived from existential psychiatry, rewired in the work of Félix Guattari in the service of an environmental thinking that emphasizes the delicate nature of processes of morphogenesis, becomes a key operator in the chapter for exploring the productive ambiguities of data-driven forms of subjectivity.

Citation

Goffey, A., & Fuller, M. (2024). Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems. In M. Sehgal, & A. Wilkie (Eds.), More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature (153-171). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529227819.ch010

• Online Publication Date: Apr 30, 2024
• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2024
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 153-171
• Series Title: More-Than-Human Aesthetics
• Series Number: Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS
• Book Title: More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature
• Chapter Number: 10
• ISBN: 978-1529227789
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529227819.ch010
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/40275468
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• Contract Date: Oct 12, 2023