Machines and Political Change: A Complex Network

A group of people can form a political movement and function as a larger machine./nIndividuals are like collections of machines and their processes./nMachines exist at the level of bodily processes./nMachines seek connections with other machines to actualize themselves./nTraditional political categories like the individual lack the flexibility of thinking in terms of machines./nMachines drive other machines and are driven by other machines with necessary couplings and connections./nThe common example used to illustrate the concept of machines is a bicycle.