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Reading Response: Regimes, Pathways, Subjects

“Paths/voices of power circumscribing and circumventing human groupings from the outside, either through direct coercion of, and panoptic grip on, bodies, or through imaginary capture of minds” (pg. 96). (Felix Guattari, “Regimes, Pathways, Subjects,” from Gary Genosko (ed.), The Guattari Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 95-108)

In Regimes, Pathways, Subjects, Gilles Deleuze discusses how machines changed people's decisions, feelings, and approaches, both at an individual and group level. Deleuze noted that the influence of engines is not as new as many people may think. Precapitalist or archaic institutions had robust social and rhetorical devices that promoted subjectivities among people during the time.

Deleuze further noted that these machines could be placed in different contexts based on the contribution to have toward community perception. The view is that collective subjectivity can fit into three categories. First is the idea that an external power surrounds groups of people and continues to hold many people captive by controlling what they do. Second is the idea that knowledge is critical in understanding the aspects...