This document discusses the philosophies of Guattari and De Landa regarding machines and assemblages. Guattari believes that machines are not limited to technology, but can include ideas and living things. Anything with independent but interconnected components can be considered a machine. De Landa discusses simulations and Turing machines simulating other machines, raising questions about whether this could eventually remove human will. The document questions whether creating an all-encompassing definition of machines and assemblages would be complicated and whether autonomous self-replicating machines could help or hinder humanity or the species of technology.

1. Guattari’s Machinic Heterogenesis: What the? & De Landa’s “Bloodless Transfusion” Presentation by Edward Colussi