A Thousand Machines by Gerald Raunig

A Thousand Machines by Gerald Raunig

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 F lix 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.

Raunig, Gerald: - Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Zü¾˜¶˜¼rich University of the Arts, Zü¾˜¶˜¼rich 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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ISBN 13	9781584350859
ISBN 10	1584350857
Title	A Thousand Machines
Author	Gerald Raunig
Series	Semiotext Intervention Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Autonomedia
Year published	2010-04-09
Number of pages	120
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