Desiring-Machines and (Hallucinatory) Modes of Alternativity, Affectivity, and Ethicality

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ID24229274
AuthorsBretton A Vargas (0000-0001-6367-4123, California State University, Chico)
Year2026
Publication date2026-10-09
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778004261489165
OpenAlexW7221174533
LanguageEN
References cited33

This article explores the speculative implications and imbrications of artificial alternative intelligence(s) (AIs) on movements and conceptual forces that influence the actualization of ethicality. Moving with Manning’s wander lines and Deleuze and Guattari’s desiring-machines , this article calls for the field of (post)qualitative research to engage with the productive and contentious tensions and blockages that continue to surface across worlds determined by the flows of fascism. To do so, two digital socio-political videos or memes are affectively analyzed in an effort to further understand the significance and exigency of attending to the ways in which AIs have shifted the ethical ground from which all inquiry is performed.

Affect · Deleuze and Guattari · desiring machine · Ethics · Fascism · memes · post-qualitative research · speculative inquiry · Artificial Intelligence · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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