The point is a geometrical abstraction, everyone would probably agree with that.

This lecture by Ludger Hovestadt explores how  the abstract concept of a point releases different potentials to be realized in different technological paradigms. It gives an introduction to what it can allow for first in a pre-analytical, geometrical paradigm, then in an analytical, mechanical paradigm, and closes with an outlook and a first attempt to characterize the story of the point within the more recent paradigm of electronic technologies and its networks.

Listen to the lecture here:

MAS10_1M4_hovestadt_01 part1

MAS10_1M4_hovestadt_02 part2

MAS10_1M4_hovestadt_03part3

slides:

Rhizome pdf

Deleuze and Guattari – A Thousand Plateaus pdf