Chaosophy - autonomous learning

the metaphysical other which he had constructed with Deleuze in
their joint works.
Guattari also proposed to rework Francisco Varela's notion of
autopoiesis which designates organisms generating their own
operation and their specific limits. However, by broadening this
biological application to social systems, Guattari also included
technical machines and the entire evolving human entity inasmuch
as these elements are initially caught within singular assemblages in
a process of becoming. Having reevaluated the Saussurian rupture
between language and speech in a new light, and demonstrated
that the two dimensions are totally intertwined, Guattari defined,
in conclusion to this book which synthesizes all his reflections,
what he meant by this new aesthetic paradigm he was hoping to
bring about. He started from the idea that technical or social
imperatives inherent to societies of the past now were perceived as
so many aesthetic manifestations; they attested to the rise in power
of this relation of aesthetization that our society maintains with
the world. This testified to a modern civilization which could only
survive through the continual creation of the new and through
innovation in every domain. And yet, this process of transformation
never ceased raising the question of subjectivity from
different angles.
Guattari went through the great upheaval of 1989 and the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism and the end of the
Cold War, with the same analytical acuity. He remained aware of
the danger that the multiplication of archaizing outbursts represented,
of the regression to sectarian and fundamentalist identity,
but his optimism and his desire for better becomings, however,
went unabated. Quite to the contrary, he realized that there was no
better time "to reinvent politics. "48 The world that used to be
bipolarized through the opposition between the Eastern and Western
blocs now was on the way to becoming integrated along the lines
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