A Thousand Machines
A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement
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- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2010
Summary
The machine as a social movement of today’s “precariat”-those whose labor and lives are precarious.In this “concise philosophy of the machine,” Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze- the machine, not as a technical device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This conception of the machine as an arrangement of technical, bodily, intellectual, and socia…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350859 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350857 |
| Author: | Gerald Raunig, Aileen Derieg |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series |
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“It is to Gerald Raunig’s great credit that his essay reintroduces the concept of the machine as defined by Deleuze and Guattari; he examines it against the background of Marxist tradition, which has been articulated most innovatively in post-operaism. His work shows the possible intersections and continuities, but also points to discontinuities between these two theories which have evolved at markedly different periods.” Maurizio Lazzarato
About The Author
Gerald Raunig
Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Z rich University of the Arts, Z rich and the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), Vienna. He is coeditor of the multilingual publishing platform Transversal Texts and the Austrian journal Kamion. He is the author of Art and Revolution, A Thousand Machines, and Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, all published by Semiotext e .
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