| Deleuze and Guattari are interested in the question of what life might be if it is not confined to the organic sphere, a question which is in part a challenge to biology's claim to be that which gives the primary definition of life. The ontological dynamics of their neovitalist concept of 'inorganic life' are most throughly set out in "The Geology of Morals" plateau. Inorganic life does not imply that organisms are not alive, but that life can be articulated in all things. Proceeding via the assembling of multiplicities (also called symbioses between heterogeneous elements, sympathetic co-functionings, monstrous couplings, and experimental becomings), inorganic life is both an ontological and a political category for Deleuze and Guattari. This thesis is a creative and critical attempt to situate the systems of assemblages from "The Geology of Morals" within the larger context of Deleuze and Guattari's reimagining of life along inorganic lines. |
