ABSTRACT

The object of philosophy is to create concepts that are always new. They must be invented, fabricated, or rather created and would be nothing without their creator's signature. This chapter differs in three ways from most published work in the humanities. The chapter experiments, inhales hard, and, in doing so, mutates. It takes apart, scatters and imports, and reconstructs. Pragmatism is a philosophy of community, as the principle of democracy. It has appeared to be a repudiation of Stoicism in its demand to remake the world and in its insistence that to be different is not necessarily to be better. Pan-machinism is pragmatism, a minor philosophy. Pervert is a reorientation of all thought and of what it means to think. Gilles Deleuze creates, recycles, melts down metals, forms anew, produces endlessly. Deleuze is a conceptual entrepreneur, eyeing new markets, new insertions, new serrations, plotting new ventures and product lines of flight, always creating new concepts, always producing anew, always reproducing.