TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mischke, Dennis
T1  - Deleuze and the digital
T2  - Deleuze and Guattari studies
N2  - In his short and often quoted essay 'Postscript on the Societies of Control', Gilles Deleuze famously describes the structures of power in the dawning twenty-first century as driven by 'machines of a third type, computers', as novel and predominantly digital infrastructures. In fact, from a Deleuzian perspective the entire ecosystem of the digital transformation can be described as a larger shift in modes of production and the political economy. This essay proposes to read this 'technological evolution' as the power of algorithms and their material substance - digital infrastructures that entail a different mode of interaction between humans and technology. In looking at these infrastructures from a materialist position, my essay reconceptualises the digital as the unfolding logic of assemblages that have been shaping a 'long now' of technological modernity. In bringing a Deleuzian reading of infrastructures to the study of technology and society, this essay seeks to shed a new light on the political function-and the increasing abstraction-of infrastructures in the realm of the digital.
KW  - digital materialism
KW  - critical infrastructure studies
KW  - culture and
KW  - algorithms
KW  - societies of control
KW  - abstract machines
KW  - assemblages
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/57690
SN  - 2398-9777
SN  - 2398-9785
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SP  - 593
EP  - 609
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
CY  - Edinburgh
ER  -