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Affectivity (n.) is a relation between an individualized being and the preindividual milieu.
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The Associated milieu (n.) is invention running backwards in time: the inventor designs parts for a surround that will exist only once the machine runs, so a condition from the future shapes the present design.
Craft (n.) made the worker himself the machine: he was the living body that carried the tools, which is why the factory, by handing the tools to a machine, felt like a dethronement.
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Fashion (n.) makes a machine old before its parts wear out: a car that still runs perfectly is aged by last year's chrome and colour, a death by society rather than by friction.
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Form (n.) is, in social organizations, completely active, and matter is fully passive.
Inference (n.) fetches its answer from outside — deduction borrows a principle from above, induction keeps only what cases share — whereas invention draws the solution out of the problem's own tensions and throws nothing away.