Chaosophy - autonomous learning

linguistic signifier."43 He based this criticism on Daniel Stern's
work on infants44 that allowed one to perceive the emergent and
heterogenetic character of subjectivity. At the end of his journey,
we can note the discrete return of the one who had left his imprint
on Guattari from the very beginning: Jean-Paul Sartre, and his
insistence on the existential dimension.
Guattari didn't deny Freudianism its historical contribution,
but he was eager to promote a different approach which would no
longer revolve around the opposition between conscious and
unconscious, but would envisage the unconscious as an overlay of
diverse heterogeneous strata of subjectification, each of variable
consistency and productive of flows-the thing he tried to identify
in his schizoanalytic cartographies.45
This precedence given to subjectification led him to reject
closed-off modelizations which denied the new and were only
concerned with regularities and meaningful averages. Quite to the
contrary, Guattari privileged the processual, the irreversible, and
the singular. And to avoid binary oppositions, he proposed "the
concept of ontological intensity. It implies an ethico-aesthetic
engagement of the enunciative assemblage."46 Freudianism had
taken neurosis for its model whereas, according to Guattari, schizoanalysis
would take psychosis for a model, because it is in psychosis
that the other appears beyond personal identity, and because this
fracture makes it possible to build a true heterogenesis.
Following the work of Pierre Levy, Guattari showed that we
cannot reduce the concept of the machine to the idea of a mechanical
operation. On the one hand, all machines are crossed by "abstract
machines," but today, with robotics and data processing, they
increasingly involve human intelligenceY Like Levy, Guattari
considered that the "ontological iron curtain," which the philosophical
tradition had built between the spirit and matter, should
be dismantled. He even found in this once again the very sense of