Chaosophy - autonomous learning

All these machines are real machines. Hocquenghem is right in
saying, "Where desire is active, there is no longer any place for the
Imaginary," nor for the Symbolic. All these machines are already
there; we are continually producing them, manufacturing them,
setting them in motion, for they are desire, desire just as it isalthough
it takes artists to bring about their autonomous
presentation. Desiring-machines are not in our heads, in our imagination,
they are inside the social and technical machines themselves.
Our relationship with machines is not a relationship of invention or
of imitation; we are not the cerebral fathers nor the disciplined sons
of the machine. It is a relationship of peopling: we populate the
social technical machines with desiring-machines, and we have no
alternative. We are obliged to say at the same time: social technical
machines are only conglomerates of desiring-machines under molar
conditions that are historically determined; desiring-machines are
social and technical machines restored to their determinant molecular
conditions. Schwitters' Merz is the last syllable of Komerz. It
is futile to examine the usefulness or uselessness, the possibility or
impossibility of these desiring-machines. Their impossibility and
their uselessness become visible only in the autonomous artistic
presentation, and there very rarely. Don't you see that they are
possible because · they are; they are there in every way, and we
function with them. They are eminently useful, since they constitute
the two directions of the relationship between the machine and
man, the communication of the two. At the very moment you say,
"this machine is impossible," you fail to see that you are making it
possible, by being yourself one of its parts, the very part that you
seemed to be missing in order for it to be already working, the
dancer-danger. You argue about the possibility or the usefulness, but
you are already inside the machine, you are a part of it, you have put
a finger inside, or an eye, your anus, or your liver (the modern
version of "You are in the same boat ... ").
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