ABSTRACT
In this text I will play with the toolbox provided by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, I trying out a few of their crowbars to pry loose the topic of gender and technology. My discursive logic, like theirs, will be more cir-cuitous than causal in its delineation of various converging trajectories. For Deleuze and Guattari, a body does not have a gender; rather, gender is projected on it through social forces. However, social assignments of gender are not made arbitrarily; they are designated on the basis of anatomical differences. The deviations from fixation to fluidity in the Deleuzian model can be usefully applied to the investigation of contexts in which gender is mediated through a technological apparatus.
