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The Anthropological machine (n.) drove ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man's becoming historical — and with the end of philosophy and the epochs of being, it is now idling.

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The Anthropological machine (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the human sovereign by banning its own animality — including it by excluding it, as sacrifice makes a sacred self.

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The Anthropological machine (n.) defines ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the human by dividing and rejoining, inside us, the human and the animal; to stop it means exposing the empty gap between them.

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The Anthropological machine (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be stopped only by showing the empty gap inside us between human and animal and risking ourselves in that emptiness — the Sabbath of both animal and man.