Patterns and forms emerge from the collective raucous, and these forms give rise to other forms. Although it might seem to be stretching the concept of systemic components to include the user population, the fact that the emerging pattern is dependent on these users to evolve renders them part of the system. The organisation of a machine has less to do with its materiality than with the inter-relations of its components. This is not anti-humanist. It's not even post-humanist.
Ideology is a human concept which is brought to bear on technology.
We're talking a different register altogether. Guattari extends the concept of self-organisation to create a pragmatic philosophy. Bit 13 Machinic heterogenesis is a term to describe the way that the machines which populate the universe connect with each other, mutually affect each other, exchange segments and then bifurcate into new machines. Collective existential mutation. When we sit at a computer screen, we are connected with the computer's universes of reference through the circuits of sight, the play of fingers across the keyboard, the conceptual and logical limits of the exchange laid down by both parties.