Mikkel Rørbo
Mikkel Rørbo ist ein interdisziplinärer Forscher und, hin und wieder, auch Künstler und Kurator. Derzeit ist er Doktorand am Peter Weibel Forschungsinstitut für digitale Kulturen und hat einen Abschluss in Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften von der Universität Kopenhagen. Seine Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die philosophischen Dimensionen des Lebens mit maschineller Intelligenz und spekulative Methoden für die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit neuen Technologien. Als Künstler und Kurator hat er internationale Performances, Veröffentlichungen und Ausstellungen durchgeführt und mit verschiedenen Institutionen, Festivals und Kunsträumen zusammengearbeitet. Er hat über Technologie, Philosophie und zeitgenössische Experimente in der Musik gearbeitet und geschrieben.
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- title
- Becoming Hostile
- type
- Speech
- keywords
- Deleuze, Guattari, Posthumanism, Philosophy, Becoming, Artificial Intelligence
- texts
- Abstract
- Artificial intelligence discourse often conflates the machine with the human, tracing anthropomorphic traits and reconciling any perceived similarities as representative of human faculties. This paper suggests that rather than striving for conciliation, the force of difference flowing from the inhuman otherness of machinic cognition holds a promise to renegotiate essentialist conceptions of the ‘human’. The War Machine as a concept characterized by exteriority, defined as a position outside the confines of the hegemonic apparatus, cracks open a space that might be suggested to hold a central hostility and negativity in the otherwise affirmative philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari. Drawing inspiration from the frictions suggested in D&G’s theories on the War Machine, this paper sets out to investigate places of hostility contained within to create a space for productive antagonism that may act as a decentering of human perception. In focusing on an understanding of utter difference, exemplified by the inhuman cognition of AI, the construction of an other which is undefined by lack, negation and fixed identity is further explored. In this context, hostility breaks free from dialectical binarism and negation, becoming instead a vehicle for the rejection of immutable form and rigid striated categorization. It becomes an attempt to reclaim hostility from the throes of destructive subjugation and introduce it as a force contained in becoming-inhuman as it claws and tears at any urge to claim certainty about what constitutes ‘human’. This rejection of dialectical binaries is essential to the appreciation of what Patricia Reed has termed an ‘otherness without othering’. So, might we use Deleuzoguattarian frameworks of difference and deterritorialization, when evaluating the potentials of an inhuman form of cognition to question the essentialism of ‘humanness’ by embracing a process of friction and becoming which is hostile to any fixed categorization of essential characteristics?
- Description
- ‘Becoming Hostile’ considered the positioning of hostility and antagonism to recognize a more radical, more confrontational understanding of difference and the becomings it entails. With a political present where technologies are only too easily coopted into hegemonic control systems, tech-utopianism simply means more of the same and more-for-the-same-people and where binarisms reinforce non-generative alterity and othering, the paper starts with the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari as a theory of difference that is ripe with destructive change, reconfiguration, annihilation even. Becoming is not simply a frictionless process that leaves everyone unscathed, it tears apart, it breaks open. By drawing on the irreducible exteriority of the Deleuzoguattarian war machine, the paper seeks to investigate the becomings of machinic cognition which, in its position of pure difference, becomes a force of friction unmooring molar categories. It is AI as a hyperstitional quantity, a feedback loop that intensifies cultural fictions into reality and in doing so reconfigure, deterritorialize. ‘Becoming Hostile’ was an attempt to reclaim hostility from the throes of hegemonic subjugation and fixed identity, and introduce it as a force contained in becoming-inhuman as it claws and tears at any urge to claim certainty of what constitutes ‘human’.
- lecturers
- Mikkel Rørbo
- title of event
- Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference '25
- organisers/management
- Deleuze & Guattari Studies, Konstfack
- date, time and location
- date
- 2025-06-17
- location
- Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
- URL
- https://app.konstfack.se/dgs2025/
