Chaosophy - autonomous learning

them from the outside another biological schema while breaking up
the evolutive line according to heterogeneous social organizations 15
(it is among other factors, this interplay between productive forces
and relations of production that explains the strange idea that the
bourgeoisie was revolutionary at a given moment). It seems to us on
the contrary that the machine has to be directly conceived in relation
to a social body, and not in relation to a human biological
organism. If such is the case, one cannot regard the machine as a
new segment that succeeds that of the tool, along a line that would
have its starting point in abstract man. For man and the tool are
already components of a machine constituted by a full body acting
as an engineering agency, and by men and tools that are engineered
(machines) insofar as they are distributed on this body. For example,
there is a full body of the steppe which engineers man-horse-bow, a
full body of the Greek city-state which engineers men and weapons,
a full body of the factory which engineers men and machines ... Of
the two definitions of a manufacture given by Ure, and cited by
Marx, the first relates machines to the men who tend them, while
the second relates the machines and the men, "mechanical and intellectual
organs," to the manufacture as the full body that engineers
them. It is in fact the second definition that is literal and concrete.
It is not through metaphors nor by extension that we consider
public places and community facilities (les lieux, les equipements
collectifs) the means of communication, and the social bodies as
machines or machine components. On the contrary, it is by virtue
of a restriction and a derivation that the machine will cease to
designate anything but a technical reality but precisely under the
conditions of a quite specific full body, the body of money-Capital,
insofar as it gives the tool the form of fixed capital, which is to say,
distributes the tools on the surface of an autonomous mechanical
representative, and gives man the form of variable capital, which is
to say, distributes men on an abstract representative of labor in
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