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les machines célibataires |
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great bachelor machines Explanation: As Katsy has helpfully pointed out, this is Deleuze/Guattari-speak. In the published translation of their L'Anti-Oedipe the term "celibate machines", and a number of people who discuss them on this subject use that translation: https://books.google.es/books?id=WvvQfxvGfpYC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA... However, although they typically give the term their own slant, they didn't invent it; they got it from Michel Carrouges, who in turn was referring back to Marcel Duchamp's Le Grand Verre, also titled La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (1915-23). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_Stripped_Bare_by_Her... Duchamp referred to it as "La Machine Célibataire", and to elements included in its as "machines célibataires". Carrouge pointed out a similarity to the punitive apparatus in Kafka's story "In the Penal Colony". http://christianhubert.com/writings/bachelor_machine.html https://conservationmachines.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/michel... So I think the term "bachelor machine" should be used, because there's an ongoing thread here. And plenty of people discussing Deleuze & Guattari's take on the idea in English use the term "bachelor machine". I take "grandes" to mean "great" rather than "large" here, though I'm not completely sure about that; I may be wrong. Whether the writer is referring to Duchamp or to D&G or a combination, I couldn't say, but I must be one or both; the use of the term can't be a coincidence. |
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large bachelor (or celibate) machines Explanation: This comes originally from Marcel Duchamp's sculpture, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-the-bride-stripp... Deleuze and Guattari make reference to it in their book, Anti-Oedipus, see here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GJ8kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA156&lp... This document explains: The relationship between Man and machine is long and complex—ranging from mechanic dolls in the late 18th century to androids and cyborgs in contemporary science fiction. This course examines the role of machines and automatons in relation to the modernist crisis of representation and the fantasy of artificial procreation. We will particularly focus on the fantasy of the so-called machine célibataire as a model for a self-contingent form of authorship. The idea of the bachelor machine reflects the status of the modern subject in a deserted world, replaces procreation with a continuous and repetitive artificial creation and understands art as a substitution of life. http://german.rutgers.edu/docman-lister/fall-2010-syllabi/15... |
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Reference: les machines célibataires Reference information: http://1libertaire.free.fr/SLatouche19.html And one quote from this article Les Machines Célibataires , définies par Deleuze et Guattari comme "surfaces d'enregistrement, corps sans organes (...) l'essentiel est l'établissement d'une surface enchantée d'inscription ou d'enregistrement qui s'attribue toutes les forces productives et les organes de production, et qui agit comme quasi-cause en leur communiquant le mouvement apparent", sont organisées en arborescences multiples. I am not sure that I understand :-) |
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