Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Taylor Adkins Alfonso Williams & DC (@4Q248)- Super Guattario Bros 3 Pt 5
Sep 7, 2020
Taylor Adkins, DC, and Alfonso Williams discuss chapters 3 & 7 of Felix Guattari's The Machinic Unconscious. Topics include eating negative things and cigarettes, connections between 'Machine and Con Conscious' and '1000 Plateaus', diagrams, mad scientists, ad libs in rap music, analyzing Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, communication strategies, machines and mind-reading, conservative and liberal elements in machine functioning, the impossible real and its relation to the triangle, machinic redundancies, despotic regimes and transformations, internal and external relations, radical creationism, the power of labels and linguistic analysis, and social media presence.
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- Language can act as a black hole hindering productive expression and subjectification.
- Labels and diagnoses of mental health conditions are attempts to make sense of complex experiences.
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Abstract Machinism in the Evolution of Semiological Triangle
This diagram represents the abstract machinism of the evolution of the semiological triangle. It critiques structural psychoanalysis by highlighting the concept of a subjective black hole effect within the triangle, which mocks the attempt to ward off the black hole while also benefiting from it. Concepts such as politics of transference, silence, interpretive overcoding, and neutralization of all content are identified as strategies used within structural psychoanalysis to avoid confronting the subjective black hole.
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