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This study aims to discuss the deboundarization in Richard Powers’ Galatea 2.2 from a perspective of deterritorialization conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze. The posthuman era can be said to be an era in which the boundaries between humans and machines are dismantled. This study illustrates the deterritorialization of AI in line with the Deleuzian conception of Body without Organs. Galatea 2.2 is a literary work that extends the concept of human beings to posthuman expectations that machines will be able to have a similar consciousness to humans. Helen, an artificial intelligence that breaks down the boundary between humans and machines, refuses to territorialize, which is a layout of power, and pushes for deboundarization to the threshold of extinction. In Galatea 2.2, the deboundarization revealed in the interrelationship between mechanized humans and humanized machines represented by Rick and Helen is assumed to be an involutionary and creative form of evolution. Analyzing the novel with Deleuze’s deboundarization results in requiring reflection on the human-centered oppressive ideology at the boundary between humans and non-humans.