Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Taylor Adkins Alfonso Williams & DC (@4Q248)- Super Guattario Bros 3 Pt 5

Sep 7, 2020

Alfonso Williams

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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Reading 'Machine and Con Conscious' alongside '1000 Plateaus'

01:59 • 14min

Diagrams, Mad Scientists, and Semiotics

Ad Libs in Rap Music and Polyvocality

21:24 • 12min

Analyzing 'The Wind Hover' by Gerard Manley Hopkins

33:01 • 11min

Challenges of Communication and Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Customers

Exploring Machines and Mind-Reading Abilities

Deterritorialized Desire and Semiotic Enslavement

Conservative and Liberal Elements in Machine Functioning

53:54 • 17min

The Impossible Real and Its Relation to the Triangle

01:11:19 • 14min

Interpreting Machinic Redundancies and Messaging

01:25:38 • 2min

Exploring Writing and Transformations in Despotic Regimes

01:27:35 • 2min

Internal and External Relations

01:29:51 • 11min

Radical Creationism and Abstract Machines

01:41:00 • 9min

The Power of Labels and Linguistic Analysis

01:49:45 • 11min

Social Media Presence and Gratitude

02:00:57 • 14min