Rage Against the Machine

BY RANRAN ZHANG

In their book Anti-Oedipus, philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Psychoanalyst Félix Guattari argue that we should ditch the dichotomy between human and machine, and instead see the world, the body, and society as a set of interconnected machines.

If The Green New Deal can also be thought of as an extremely complicated machine, that’s connected to millions of other machines, individuals, collectives, moving parts and all kinds, the authors stressing that it is not even a metaphor. This machine is always embedding itself into other groups of machines in order to be able to bring about its own actuality. By creating the new assemblages of machines, which can radically transform the world.

This thesis aims at interpreting and paraphrase the “machine theory” in its purest sense by recruiting the motif of criss-crossing industrial pipelines. With its adaptivity and flexibility which encapsulate that the super machines (The Green New Deal) interface and assemble with other machines in multiple scales in order to create the new synthesis that result in a stronger, more evolved being.