A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement - Couverture souple

Raunig, Gerald

 
9781584350859: A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1584350857 ISBN 13 : 9781584350859
Editeur : MIT Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 Félix 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 social components subverts the opposition between man and machine, organism and mechanism, individual and community.

Drawing from an unusual range of films, literature, and performance—from the role of bicycles in Flann O'Brien's fiction to Vittorio de Sica's Neorealist film The Bicycle Thieves, and from Karl Marx's “Fragment on Machines” to the deus ex machina of Greek drama—Raunig arrives at an enhanced conception of the machine as a social movement, finding its most apt and concrete manifestation in the Euromayday movement, which since 2001 has become a transnational activist and discursive practice focused upon the precarious nature of labor and lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich 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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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1584350857
ISBN 13 
9781584350859
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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