stanza image artwork spider maps series
The abstract machine
“What we term machinic is precisely this synthesis of heterogeneities as such.
Inasmuch as these heterogeneities are matters of expression, we say that their
synthesis itself, their consistency or capture, forms a properly machinic
“statement” or “enunciation.” The varying relations into which a color, sound,
gesture, movement, or position enters into the same species and in different
species, form so many machinic enunciations. (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987, pp.
330 & 331 A Thousand Plateaus)”
DELEUZE, G. and GUATTARI, F. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. vol.2. Trans. by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
From Bill Seaman’s Recombinat Poetics text “Database Aesthetics”
A growing, open “set” of experiences informing the understanding of a work also arise
outside of the initial interactive context, through subsequent abstraction of the work as
well as differing forms of re contextualization, and reproduction. Deleuze and Guattari
describe this concept as the “line of flight”14. The concept of the rhizome as developed by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus is highly relevant to a discussion of a
shifting set of configurations of media-elements and processes.
