This study is to present frames to analyze the various anti-cultures arising from the various antisites in cyberspace. Importantly, the study understands Deleuze and Guattari's critique of capitalism Deleuze and Guattari argue that capitalism is a sch...
This study is to present frames to analyze the various anti-cultures arising from the various antisites in cyberspace. Importantly, the study understands Deleuze and Guattari's critique of capitalism Deleuze and Guattari argue that capitalism is a schizophrenic system Because it is interested only in the individual and his profit it must subvert or deterritorialize all territorial and groupings such as the church, the family, the group, indeed any social arrangement. But at the same time, since capitalism requires social groupings in order to function, it must allow for reterritorializations, new social groupings, new forms of the state, the family, or the group. These events happen at the same time. The life of any culture is always both collapsing and being restructured. The end of history is capitalism(the civilized capitalist machine) which radically decodes and deterritorializes social life. It invents the private individual, owner of his own body and its labour. In order to accomplish this deterritorialization, everything sacred, ritual or traditional has to go. Capitalism has no need of any sacred system of belief. It is the most radical of all systems, since it undercuts anything that represses the autonomous individual. And yet, say Deleuze and Guattari, the reality of capitalism is the greatest repression of desiring production in history. Presumably, it should have led to an absolute, nomadic freedom, but it has not. Deleuze and Guattari propose that the capitalist society can be changed by a molecular revolution. How can be the molecular revolution fulfilled? The study shows that the antisites in cyberspace bring possibilities to fulfill the molecular revolution, and that the molecular revolution practices an emancipatory praxis in the spiritual level.