Schizoanalysis of AI: Machinic Desire, Energy, and Planetary Subjectivation

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

This seminar approaches artificial intelligence not as a model of cognition or a substitute for human thought, but as a *machinic assemblage* that reorganises desire, labour, and planetary forms of life. Against the dominant ideology of AI grounded in the thermodynamics of information -- where thought is reduced to computation and life to optimisation -- this lecture draws on Deleuze and Guattari‘s schizoanalysis to propose an alternative conceptual framework. Schizoanalysis allows us to understand AI as a *desiring-machine*, one that connects technical infrastructures, global supply chains, computational architectures, and human bodies in new circuits of production and exhaustion. Rather than asking whether AI can “think,” I investigate how AI participates in the *production of subjectivity*: how it reconfigures perception, affects, attention, and the conditions of planetary co-existence. By situating AI within the broader question of the *machinic earth*, the seminar reframes the stakes of AI beyond ethics or regulation, toward the problem of how modes of life and care can be composed in the shadow of accelerating automation.