Malfunctioning human bodies paradoxically enable freer transformation

Evidence

Yet, precisely because of this hideously collocated morbid assemblage, the human contains a potential for destratification which the functionally streamlined simple organism lacks. This is where Spinoza converges with cyberpunk, and hence with Deleuze and Guattari, cyberpunk’s main theoretical program. One of the consequences of Spinoza’s analysis, as I said before, is that human beings’ emotion-generating hardware can be understood using the same causal framework that is applied to the so-called natural world. In the twentieth century, cybernetics will make the same discovery. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2327

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘destratification potential in the morbid assemblage’ is pure Deleuze; your library has comparable paradoxes (e.g., Adorno’s reading of nature’s domination rebounding).
• FICTION: The idea that a broken, self-punishing system contains a freedom the functional one lacks is a solid seed for science fiction about neurological/biological humans.