Simulating Machines
Modelling, Metaphysics and the Mechanosphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22131608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Leron Shults (0000-0002-0588-6977, University of Agder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-374 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deleuze and Guattari Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-9777 • E-ISSN: 2398-9785 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/dlgs.2020.0408 |
| OpenAlex | W3048607508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article explores some of the ways in which the conceptual apparatus of A Thousand Plateaus, and especially its machinic metaphysics, can be connected to recent developments in computer modelling and social simulation, which provide new tools for thinking that are becoming increasingly popular among philosophers and social scientists. Conversely, the successful deployment of these tools provides warrant for the flat ontology articulated in A Thousand Plateaus and therefore contributes to the ‘reversal of Platonism’ for which Deleuze had called in his earlier works, such as Logic of Sense. The first major section offers a brief exposition of some key concepts in A Thousand Plateaus in order to set the stage for the second and third major sections, which argue that the fabrication of a metaphysics of immanence can be accelerated by connecting its conceptual apparatus more explicitly to insights derived from philosophical analyses of computational modelling and simulation and the social scientific use of ‘assemblage theory’. The article concludes with a summary of the argument and a brief consideration of some of the potential ethical and political implications of this interdisciplinary engagement
Epistemology · Immanence · Metaphysics · Ontology · Philosophy of science · Philosophy of technology · Platonism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Warrant · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Human Simulation
Essays on Deleuze
Realism, materialism, and the assemblage
Computational Social Science
Agent‐Based Computational Sociology
Practicing Safe Sects
Reassembling International Theory
Assemblage Theory
Deleuze's Reversal of Platonism, Revisited
Modelling terror management theory
Forecasting Changes in Religiosity and Existential Security with an Agent-Based Model
A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
Multiple Axialities
Virtual Environments and the Concept of Synergy
The assemblage of culture-led policies in small towns and rural communities
Assemblage Theory, or, the Future of an Illusion
Assemblage Theory and Its Discontents
Generative Social Science
Deleuze and Guattari's A thousand plateaus
New Philosophy of Society
Anti-Oedipus
A thousand plateaus
Assemblage thinking as methodology
Deleuzian Intersections. Science, Technology, Anthropology
Becoming Interdisciplinary
How to Survive the Anthropocene
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |