not reversible

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Guattari also wrote an article on the "Autopoiesis" idea of Maturana and 
Varela, while he and Deleuze were working on "A Thousand Plateaus". As 
far as I remember, the term itself does not appear in ATP. However, to 
have this concept of Autopoisis in the back of the mind helps a lot when 
you're reading the book. Same for the later writings of Luhmann who 
makes explicit use of the Autopoiesis term and transfers the concept to 
the level of Social Systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis



On 13.12.2011 04:19, alice wellintown wrote:

> In the later collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari, the writings of Ilya
> Prigogine become increasingly important. Prigogine, whose book La
> nouvelle alliance (co-authored with Isabelle Stengers and partially translated
> as Order Out of Chaos) appeared in 1979, argues for a self-ordering
> of chemical components into patterns and relationships that cannot
> be read off from the previous state of chemical disarray. “The artificial,”
> he writes, “may be deterministic and reversible. The natural contains
> essential elements of randomness and irreversibility. This leads to a
> new view of matter in which matter is no longer the passive substance
> described in the mechanistic world view but is associated with spontaneous
> activity.”32
>
> Gilles Deleuze
> An Introduction
> Todd May
>
>