MachineMachine /stream - tagged with deleuze http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com The Democracy of Objects http://openhumanitiespress.org/democracy-of-objects.html/open-humanities-press THE DEMOCRACY OF OBJECTS by Levi R. Bryant (@onticologist) http://t.co/70IAcpRF | #Book —via @agfa8x @ethel_baraona – Laurent Sauerwein (larrysa) http://twitter.com/larrysa/status/176790787634380800 ]]> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:44:45 -0700 http://openhumanitiespress.org/democracy-of-objects.html/open-humanities-press We live in a "more-than-human" universe http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-02-08-metzger-en.html The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting mankind to nature and the rest of the world, this perspective consistently perceives humans as relays in a dynamic mélange of relations that can be more or less open, inclusive, and stable over time, but without any preordained knowledge about how these relations may develop or change. ]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:09:31 -0700 http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-02-08-metzger-en.html Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/frohmann/Documents/ICIE%20IV%20Foucault%20Deleuze.pdf Information ethics has become a scholarly growth industry in recent years, especially through the work of Rafael Capurro, the  founder of the International Center forInformation Ethics (ICIE). The maturity of the debate is reflected in the leading question of the International ICIE Symposium 2004 in Karlsruhe, Germany: how isembodied human life possible within local cultural traditions and the horizon of a global digital environment? The Symposium  explores ethical ramifications of thisquestion by encouraging research and reflection on effects of the Internet and postInternet developments of digital networks on a wide range of phenomena, includingcommunity, democracy, customs, language, media, economic development,… ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:32:11 -0700 http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/frohmann/Documents/ICIE%20IV%20Foucault%20Deleuze.pdf Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=312 In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction, a glitch, we get a fleeting glimpse of an alien intelligence at work. As electricity has become the basic element of the world we live in, the steady hum of power grids and their flowing immaterial essences slowly replacing the cogs and cranks of everyday machinery, the ghostly rapport has also relocated into the domain of current fluctuations, radio interference and misread data.

Early telegraph experimenters… ]]> Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:17:47 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=312 Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/first_and_last/works/realer.htm There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. The airless atmosphere has asphyxiated the referent, leaving us satellites in aimless orbit around an empty center. We breathe an ether of floating images that no longer bear a relation to any reality whatsoever.1 That, according to Baudrillard, is simulation: the substitution of signs of the real for the real.2 In hyperreality, signs no longer represent or refer to an external model. They stand for nothing but themselves, and refer only to other… ]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:46:32 -0700 http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/first_and_last/works/realer.htm To crush a Morlock’s skull http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/to-crush-a-morlock%E2%80%99s-skull

Although the Time Traveller is an inquisitive type his journey through the ancient museum offers him little insight. The relics are from his future: the arché has all but snapped off from archeology. As he leaves the museum the Time Traveller ponders how best to crush a Morlock’s skull.

The Neanderthal is the most futuristic thing I can think of. Riddled with mythic charm, and soon to have its genes… ]]> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:42:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/to-crush-a-morlock%E2%80%99s-skull Manuel De Landa. Theory of Language. 2009 1/12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr11PhgyOOk&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:35:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr11PhgyOOk&feature=youtube_gdata System of Enthalpy http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/system-of-enthalpy

Rooted in our language is a bias. It’s a bias that we can hardly be blamed for, based as it is in our conception of ourselves as distinct entities whose existence can be felt, from one moment to the next, through time. Nature appears to move ‘forwards’, the ice-cube melts if left unattended, the scream in the night dissipates into silence.

For very similar reasons we see society as a progressive entity. The 19th Century, Positivist appeal to a human reality that moves towards an ultimate goal still… ]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:46:47 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/system-of-enthalpy 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW http://www.altx.com/EBR/reviews/rev8/r8young.htm A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (which says a lot); and it is fully capable of surviving the advances from free-floating New Agers as well as the equally inevitable rebuffs from academic Old Agers. De Landa's greatest strength, no doubt, is his ability to synthesize - to create a self-sustaining system of theories that are merged, as it were, into an intellectual meshwork. Here, however, a final irony emerges: in… ]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:25:00 -0700 http://www.altx.com/EBR/reviews/rev8/r8young.htm Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/opensource.htm by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow the rest of the paper. I will then discuss a few of the ideas put forward by open-source philosophers (Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond) focusing not on their weaknesses but on their practical consequences. In particular, Stallman's achievements go beyond the creation of programs and involve the design of a contract (the GNU General Public License, or GPL) which has been arguably as crucial to the success of the movement… ]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:37:00 -0700 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/opensource.htm De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/144810 De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not limited to: computer programming, cyphers, linguistics, genetics etc. I am looking to question the assumptions of 'code'. Perhaps a specific example of a theorist de-constructing the term.

I am currently knee deep in an examination of certain practices and assumptions that have arisen from digital media/medium and digital practice (art and making in the era of… ]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:35:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/144810 The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/12/the-work-of-the-moving-image-in-the-age-of-its-digital-corruptibility.html

by Daniel Rourke

"The cinema can, with impunity, bring us closer to things or take us away from them and revolve around them, it suppresses both the anchoring of the subject and the horizon of the world... It is not the same as the other arts, which aim rather at something unreal or a tal. With cinema, it is the world which becomes its own image, and not an image which becomes world."

Giles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image

Take 12 images and splice them end to…

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