Category Archive: machine

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01 Feb

Exchange

Markets effect the generalized dispersion and annihilation of collective power.  Along with the material inputs to industrial production, labor is brutally dismantled by the process, decrypted, dissolved; we sink into…
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:06 am By Joseph Weissman 10 Replies
Paul Klee, "Domes"
07 Jan

Mutable

The movement of the signifier through history is toxic, viral, plastic — a fiery line of abolition interposing nullity into intensity, linking pure space to the absolute threshold. It is…
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:56 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
Paul Klee, "Insula Dulcamara" (1938); Oil on newsprint, mounted on burlap
01 Nov

Risk

I began writing this before disaster struck very close to home; and so I finish it without finishing it. A disaster never really ends; it strikes and strikes continuously —…
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 11:51 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
"Fractal Nebula" from LDS Jedi on DeviantArt
24 Sep

Spectral

“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” (Montaigne) Protocol. Perhaps one dimension of the aesthetic appeal of the mechanical is in the ‘purity’ of…
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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20 Mar

Earth

In the duplicity of beauty there is the strange trope of a presence which is the shadow of itself, of a being which, anachronously, lurks in its own trace. (Levinas,…
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:07 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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03 Feb

Genesis

Genesis. Enormous psychosocial and political transformations were necessary in order to put into place the global transhistorical capitalist institutions we take for granted. Capitalism is different, genetically as it were,…
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 4:43 pm By Joseph Weissman 12 Replies
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01 May

Break

Nietzsche. That joy and vision should be brought to bear even in the darkest corner of the human soul — and especially upon that within it which surges upwards and…
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:47 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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15 Feb

Words

    Jargon. A word decodes by assembling: a mobile army, a mob or mass of “blocks,” segments extruded from heterogeneous flows: flows with and without codes, flows of energy and…
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 8:38 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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27 Jan

Guattari

    On Guattari. The first ecosopher has arisen — but how to read his writings? There is not a single answer, everyone disagrees. To read Guattari without Deleuze seems like…
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 12:30 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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02 Jan

Infrastructure

    The essence of a channel is to transmit, to disseminate, to yield a flux. The problem of knowledge is correlative to constructing an adequate channel for the reception…
Friday, January 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm By Joseph Weissman 11 Replies
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16 Nov

Diagram

    “We define the abstract machine as the aspect or moment at which nothing but functions and matters remain. A diagram has neither substance nor form, neither content nor…
Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 3:21 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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13 Nov

The Transformation of Psychoanalysis

From the back cover of Guattari’s L’Inconscient machinique (1979): The transformation of psychoanalysis into an essential component of the social order does not justify the renunciation of every analysis of the…
Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 12:44 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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27 Sep

Mind

Where is truth — in knowledge or learning? If truth is processual, it is therefore also non-definitional; if it therefore exceeds classification, it annihilates a priori any possibility of its…
Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 3:49 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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30 Jul

Implosion

Philosophy begins in aporia, with a paradox or inconsistent consensus. Thus, the most ancient metaphysical figure, which we also recognize as the most simple, the shadow of the parasite upon…
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 9:15 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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14 Jul

Immersion

    At the height of its concentration, the art of the [twentieth] century — but also all the other truth procedures, each according to its own resources — aimed…
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 3:57 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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06 Jul

It Means Becoming Human

But he [Lacan] did not realize the consequences of his rupture with Freudian determinism, and didn’t appropriately situate “desiring machines” — whose theory he had iniated — within incorporeal fields…
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 10:57 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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26 Jun

Warning

      The evolution of an ecology expresses itself through both gradual and violent transformations. An ecological system is indeed a continuous system of exchanges, where functions actively extract…
Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 7:57 pm By Joseph Weissman 16 Replies
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04 Jun

Counter-mythology

Responsibility is what first enables one to catch sight of and conceive of value. Levinas, Otherwise Than Being 123 Beyond the question of being and non-being, language is not the…
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 1:53 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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15 Apr

Wandering Shadows: Reflections on Morality and Madness

In the disparity between the awareness of unreason and the awareness of madness, we have, at the end of the eighteenth century, the point of departure for a decisive movement:…
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
Young Philosopher
09 Apr

Minority

The scientific enterprise of extracting constants and constant relations is always coupled with the political enterprise of imposing them on speakers and transmitting order-words. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus…
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 10:58 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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12 Mar

Affectivity, or What is an Event?

Events are volcanic. The event opens upon an outside, a beyond, a resonant and enigmatic depth. Events move the world, releasing free and untamed vibrations within and without us. They…
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 6:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
04 Mar

Expressive Networks

expressive networks towards a new diagrammatic model for the abstraction and representation of relational knowledge How can we apply distributed network theory to knowledge representation? In this paper, we advance…
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
03 Feb

Who’s in Control?

Who’s in Control? Heidegger and Technology We have for a very long time presumed to be in control of machines. We have claimed to be the masters, and pretended to…
Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 10:22 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
23 Jan

Counter-action: Reflections on Sensory Anthropology

Towards a Metaphysics of Noise Let us return to the ‘alternate’ origin in noise, the conditions for any structure. From background noise to blank nothingness to signification: three distinct moments.…
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
19 Jan

Deconstructing Cybernetics

Notes on Derrida and Cybernetics Let us conjecture that the invention of the transistor — an auto-controllable circuit — indicates the attainment of a critical level of development in cybernetics,…
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 12:33 am By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
16 Jan

Systems of Control: Derrida and Machines

(notes for an abstract) If the theory of cybernetics is by itself to oust all metaphysical concepts — including the concepts of soul, of life, of value, of choice, of…
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 5:48 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
20 Nov

Simondon and the Machine: Technology, Individuation, Reality

Fractal Effervescence (2006), David April   Simondon and the Theory of Individuation There is something eternal in a technical scheme… and it is that which is always present, and can…
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 6:18 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
17 Nov

Cyborg Nietzsche: Conscience, Affect, Transvaluation

Part One: Criticism and Untruth-Machines A. Neurosis and Transcendence: the Algebra of Bad Conscience We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.  Marcel Proust For Nietzsche,…
Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 3:10 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Oct

Liquid Generations: Decay, Creation and Morphogenesis

Flow The moment of death is uncertain and inevitable; its shadow approaches from an unknown region like a silent stranger. Death does not need to follow us; it just meets…
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 10:37 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
24 Sep

Death and the State

Everything about the modern State is false: it is cold, mechanical and monstrous. And there is no hope for disruption: machinic production annihilates life. Capital is the calculated sacrifice of…
Monday, September 24, 2007 at 3:06 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
21 Sep

Remarks on Computational Creativity

Artificial intelligence stands in need of a fresh thought: a new thinking of complexity, of the virtual, and of machines. Instead of a virtual founded upon forms which remain forever…
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 12:24 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
21 Aug

Image and Capital

Prometheus We desire illusions — because we desire revelation. When we have faith, our energy inverts itself from within: the world is suddenly magically transformed, us along with it. Illusions!…
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 5:38 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
08 Aug

Theses on Sexuality and Sense

Propositions (1) Ontology is the geometry of assemblages, and logic the topology of evolving surfaces. (2) The face is the ultimate object of political violence, or counting. (3) Politics precedes…
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:33 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
25 Jul

Beyond Ontology

Where are the abysses? But they are already swarming: through the lines of others’ faces and in the depths of spaces, in reflections and in distortions, flowing over one another…
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 4:36 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
24 Jun

Fiction and Politics

Characters are instruments and not just images or words. The story as (spiritual) machine-inside-a-machine, endlessly. Thus character as frame for a meta-fiction, not the story within a story, but the…
Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 5:50 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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