K-punk's stuff about organisms being 'cybernetic' reminds of the way that, on many times when I've taken ketamine, I've been acutely aware of the sensation of being a physico-chemical system, or more accurately a set of subsystems that are dependent on each other but also to an extent autonomous, that may even have an agenda of their own, and only a small part of which is conscious. Or perhaps that the other subsystems have a sort of consciousness of their own that the part I consider 'me' is unaware of most of the time. Like how an octopus has a sub-brain in each of its legs, which control the creature's movements without necessarily receiving commands from the main brain. So there's your D&G 'rhizomatic' - as opposed to centralized, vertical, hierarchical - organization scheme, I suppose.
This has sometimes made me think "Wow, this must be what it felt like to William Burroughs all the time" - I remember telling Rich and this, and the two of us jokingly calling it 'instant WSB powder' for a while.
I was thinking the other day how awesome it'd be if there'd been this mirror-image Speculative Realism scene develop in India or Thailand or Japan or wherever, as a result of people there absorbing Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Kant and so on, and fusing or mutating it with their own Hindu/Buddhist/Taoist etc. traditions. But maybe that's actually happened and I've just never heard of it. (Perhaps more likely that it's an inherently postmodern (or post-postmodern) phenomenon and as such had to happen in societies that had gone through modernism/modernity, i.e. 'the West'.)