Digitality, war machines and apparatus of capture. Crossovers between scientifical-military and theoretical-critical knowledge for a cartography of contemporary distinction between war, politics and culture

Abstract

Our time demonstrates a problematic relationship between war, politics and culture, presented under the features of an indistinctness or overlap. This essay presents a theoretical discussion to outline conceptual tools for a critical approach to this problem. Through a perspective that relates to the contemporary through an "inactuality", an intellectual exercise is proposed that makes a crossover between scientific-military and theoretical-critical knowledge produced in the last decades of the last century and of great relevance in their respective fields. This is the case of those generated by the RAND Corp., at the hands of John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, in which notions such as "netwar", "swarming" and "noopolitics" were forged; and the proposals of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari embodied especially in the second volume of their project "Capitalism and schizophrenia", A Thousand Plateaus, in which concepts such as "war machine" and "apparatus of capture" are introduced. According to the terms of these latter, it is sought to generate a reflection that is located in the middle of those knowledges, to produce an assemblage that crosses the lines that connect them mechanically and to explore the ways in which they can contribute to a cartography of our present.

Key words: War; Politics; Culture; Digitality