A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement

by Gerald Raunig

Book Overview

The machine as a social movement of today's "precariat"--those whose labor and lives are precarious.

In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers F lix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This conception of the machine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584350857
• ISBN13: 9781584350859
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 3.7" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher