Productive Disintegration

This thesis is a genealogy of the following thinkers: Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze/Felix Guattari and Nick Land insofar as particular works of these thinkers, when strung together, increasingly center the technological as controlling and process of production. When moving through the works of these thinkers, a direct correlation is uncovered - between the technological taking control of the productive process, and man losing control of it; wherein the technological instantiates itself on the backs of humanity’s disintegration. A question regarding how one may live amidst times of nihilistic precarity is also addressed in this thesis, with the answer being found in aesthetic autonomy and self-gratifying excess.