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is a replacement for the confusing notion of 'subject'. Famously, the very connection between a child's mouth and a mother's breast, coming together, we might call a 'nourishing machine'.

is abstract because the asignifying signs with which it concerns itself lack determinate form or actual content definition. Though abstract, they are not unreal. They are in transport. They constitute the dynamic 'matter' of expression.

The 'machine' is abstract because the asignifying signs with which it concerns itself lack determinate form or actual content definition. Though abstract, they are not unreal. They are in transport. They constitute the dynamic 'matter' of expression. When they settle into rearticulation, they become 'substances': formed, functional elements of either content (a prisoner, for example) or expression (a phoneme perhaps)' (Massumi Shock 12).

is an assemblage of parts that works and produces.

an assemblage of parts that works and produces'' (Goodchild in Marks 48). The distinction between the organism and the mechanism is redundant: both are machines' (49). 'The concept of machine is first dealt with at length in Anti-Oedipus. Here, the image of the machine is opposed to that of the theatre' (49). The machine 'produces' desire rather than represents it upon a stage49). 'A book, for example, is an assemblage that works in relation to other assemblages: a book is a machine which needs to be 'plugged ito' other machines' (Marks 49).

is any point at which energy enters or leaves a structure, connecting it with another structure.

is dangerous because its very purpose is to promote unthinking to increase the number of things we can do without thinking.

What do such machines really do' They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger. Frank Herbert

is intended not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor off his back place it on the broad back of the machine.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. Henry Ford

is just any structure understood dynamically.

For Deleuze, a machine is just any structure understooddynamically. Abstract machines are structure understood dynamically at some level ofdisengagement from a particular instance. They become operative within actual instances ofmaterial organization, actual conjunctures, but they can be thought as a net of intensities separately from the conjuncture they will act in. [The abstract machine is] 'independent of the forms andsubstances, expressions and contents it will distribute.' [Deleuze and Guattari 1999... 141]In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari describe abstract machines as an aggregate of 'unformed matters and nonformal functions' [ibid. 511], which they term phylum and diagramrespectively

is like a human being, in possession of its own preferences.

Thus I said earlier that human beings and machines have their own preferences. This was an informal way of talking of resistance and the polyvalent character of ordering -of the way in which any particular effort at ordering encounters its limits, and struggles to accept or overcome those limits. (law 1992: 5)

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