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Heterogenesis

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heterogenesis [¦hed·ə·rō′jen·ə·səs]
(biology)
Alternation of generations in a complete life cycle, especially the alternation of a dioecious generation with one or more parthenogenetic generations.
Heterogenesis 

(1) Change in the means of reproduction in organisms during two or more generations; a particular case of alternation of generations.

(2) The sudden appearance of individuals differing sharply in a number of traits from the parent forms. This phenomenon served as the basis for the appearance of the heterogenetic theory of the origin of species by means of the sudden appearance of individuals differing sharply from the parent forms. (This theory was proposed by the German histologist R. A. von Kölliker in 1864 and the Russian botanist S. G. Korzhinskii in 1899.)
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For more on this topic, see Felix Guattari, "Machinic Heterogenesis," in Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 33-57; Maurizio Lazzarato, "The Machine," http://eipcp.
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My view is that contemporary culture and visual-art practices on their more fruitful side should be seen as productions of difference--as heterogenesis.
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