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This is a listing for a good paperback copy of Gerald Raunig's A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement, the 5th book in the semiotext(e) intervention series. a few bends to front cover and light wear around edges of covers, pages in fabulous condition.

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The machine as a social movement of this day's "precariat"-those whose labor and lives are precarious. In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French philosophers Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze- the machine, not as a technical device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This conception of the machine as an arrangement of technical, bodily, intellectual, and social components subverts the opposition between man and machine, organism and mechanism, individual and community.