Felix Guattari: ON MACHINES - The Diigo Meta page

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  • , con­temporary history actually reinforces this view of the machine as catastrophic, causing ecological damage and so on. We might therefore be tempted to look backwards as a reaction to the machinic age, so as to begin again from who knows what kind of primitive territoriality.
  • 'try­ing to break down the ontological iron curtain between being and things'.
  • hrough the machinic interface, or ma­chine conceived as interface, which Pierre Levy calls a 'hypertext'.

  • o re-apprehend and reconceptualise the machine in a different way, to begin from the being of the machine as that which is at the crossroads, as much as being in its inertia, and

      

    its character of nothingness, as the subject, subjective individuation or collective subjectivity.
  • proto-subjectivity.
  • t there is a function of consistency in the machine, both a relationship to itself and a relationship to alterity
  • the technical object cannot be limited to its materiality.
  • , there are ontogenetic elements, ele­ments of the plan, of construction, social relationships which support these technologies, a stock of knowledge, economic relations and a whole series of interfaces onto which the tech­nical object attaches itself. From this, we can establish a link between a modern type of technological machine and the tools or the actual pieces of the machine, and think of these as ele­ments connected to one another. Ever since Leibnitz, the con­cept of an
  • machine's environment forms part of machinic agencements
  • essence of the machine is linked to procedures which deterritorialise its elements, functions and relations of alterit
  • Technological machines are caught in a 'phylum' which is preceded by some machines and succeeded by others.
  • each generation opening the virtuality of other machines to come
  • The two categories of ontogenesis and phylogenesis applied to the technological object allow us to make a link with other machinic systems which are not themselves technological
  • Since the 'machine' is opened out to­wards its machinic environment and maintains all sorts of rela­tionships with social constituents and individual subjectivities, the concept of technological machine should therefore be broadened to that of machinic agencements.
  • Alongside the proto-machinic tool and technological ma­chines there are also concepts of social machines.
  • abstract machine inhabiting linguistic or syntagmatic machines
  • Logic machine, cos­mic machine;
  • objects of desire, machines of desire, objects-subjects of desire and vectors of partial subjectification, which open up far beyond the body and familial relations, on to social and cosmic ensem­bles and all types of universes of reference.
  • machine as autopoietic, self-productive and con­tinually reproducing its component parts, rather like a system without input nor outpu
  • He opposes autopoiesis, which he essentially attributes to living biological beings, to an allopoiesis in which the machine will search for its components outside of itself.
  • It is 'more' than structure in that it does not limit itself to a game of interac­tions which develop in space and time between its component parts; rather, it possesses a core of consistency, insistence and ontological affirmation, which is prior to the unfolding into energetico-spatio-temporal coordinates
  • elements of onto- or of phylogenesis, but also, on the other hand, elements of finitude
  • machinic core is always linked in some way to systems of meta-modelisation which call for a development of theory.
  • it is always haunted by the chaos that will separate it, dividing its elements into an alto­gether different kind of decomposition.
  • this autopoietic being, this machinic proto-subjectivity, were simultaneously in the register of complexity and in that of chaos
  • considered not only as being 'chaotic' but also as being able, in its compositions of elements and entities, to de­velop new formulas of extreme complexity
  • Thus they can compose the most diverse complexities but can de-complexify themselves just as quickly.
  • a 'grasping chaotic' - a momentary grasp of com­plexity that is inhabited by all kinds of potentialities.⁴
  • Th#\autopoiitic and 'hypertextual' position of the machine thus possesses a pragmatic potential, which allows for a crea­tive standpoint of machinic composition, occurring in the face of the ontological iron curtain which separates the subject_on_ the one side from things on the other.

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• 10 Jun 08
  

  Felix Guattari, On Machines, in: Andrew Benjamin ed., Complexity, JPVA, No 6, 1995, p. 8-12.

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• 09 Jun 08
  

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