Abstract
The paper “Machinic Untimeliness II. Writing Assemblages, Ontologies and Techno-Politics” aims to unfold some functions of the concept of machine in Guattari, with particular attention to the operation of constant transformation of its conceptual layers in the period comprised between Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus and in the Nineties. Starting from the birth of the abstract machine, it will follow its becomings and the several machinations to which it is subjected. In doing this, the paper specifically focuses on 1) the singular philosophical operation (and writing experience) undertaken by Guattari; 2) the politicization of the concept of machine, which also requires a sort of ontologization; and 3) the technological bifurcation of the same concept in the last formulations of the author. While presenting itself as an independent paper, it is also the second part of a more general work on the conceptual, ontological, techno-logical and political ecological status of Guattarian machines. The first part, “Machinic Untimeliness I. Machine Becomings and Conceptual Machinations”, is presented jointly with this article, which is not a simple linear continuation of the previous one, but a perspectival integration, which is made of echoes and refrains, and which in some way claims to further machinate the genealogy of the concept.
Keywords:
Abstract Machine; Machination; Machinic Ontology; Concrete Machine; Technical Machine.