Chaosophy - autonomous learning

even on behalf of relatively simple and small machines that the
desiring "convivial revolution" has to be made, but on behalf of
machinic innovation itself, which capitalist or communist societies
do everything in their economic and political power to repress. 13
One of the greatest artists of desiring-machines, Buster Keaton
was able to pose the problem of an adaptation of the mass machine
to individual ends, or to those of a couple or small group, in The
Navigator, where the two protagonists "have to deal with housekeeping
equipment generally used by hundreds of people (the galley
is a forest of levers, pulleys, and wires). "14 It is true that the themes
of reduction or adaptation of machines are not sufficient by themselves,
and stand for something else. This is shown by the demand
that everyone be able to make use of them and control them. For
the true difference between social technical machines and desiringmachines
obviously is not in the size, nor even in the ends they
serve, but in the regime that decides on the size and the ends. They
are the same machines, but it is not the same regime. This is not to say,
by any means, that we should counter the present regime, which
submits technology to the aims of an economy and a politics of
oppression, with the notion of a regime in which technology presumably
would be liberated and liberating. Technology presupposes
social machines and desiring-machines, each within the other, and,
by itself, has no power to decide which will be the engineering
agency, desire or the oppression of desire. Every time technology
claims to be acting on its own, it takes on a fascist hue, as in the
techno-structure, because it implies not only economic and political
investments, but libidinal investments as well, and they are
turned entirely towards the oppression of desire. The distinction
between the two regimes, as the regime of antidesire and that of
desire, does not come down to the distinction between the collectivity
and the individual, but to two types of mass organization, in
which the individual and the collective do not enter into the same
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