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Retroactively, I would also add "A Thousand Plateaus" by Deleuze & Guattari to this list, except that I haven't yet read the actual thing, but only dipped my toes into related studies, like e.g. "The Allure of Machinic Life" by John Johnston that traces the history of cybernetics, A-Life and AI fields and adds a Deleuzian spin on top.

This is the only case in my life where I wanted to adopt author's philosophy and learn to see the world the way they do. The content is very interdisciplinary and heavily borrows from various fields (psychoanalysis, dynamic systems theory, biology, linguistics &c) and will surely appeal to a technically minded person.




https://libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf

Books like that, I think there is a lot of value in just diving in and seeing what happens. I would highly recommend it.


I think that's the main idea behind the book's rhizomatic structure, as authors put it.


In general everyone should read or listen to Deleuze. Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 are mind-bending.




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