Deleuze And Guattari formulated their philosophy as the creation and action of
machines, which would be various immanent and transcendent structures shaping reality. Desire is the foundation of the creation of machines that encompass both humans and objects within the social field, and which result in more technical machines. When these machines become independent from human creation there is the reorganizing of desire in the social field to such an extent that it is possible for humans to desire their own repression.
The
Burning Man festival is a yearly event where free expression and community is enacted. It is a type of temporary autonomous zone that breaks free from any tendency to create hierarchy and restrictions on human desire. The alternative that is presented there is that humans can create cooperative systems and still express desire in a productive way, outside of the nation-state and other
oppressive structures such as religion or capitalism.
Here is an interesting use of technology where a ring of wave generators surrounding a tank can cause letters to be formed in the water. Technically this method could be used for any material in which energy can be conducted through and cause movement.
Here is a wonderful website that sells a selection of shirts with a retrofuturistic design. It comes from the same person who set up
this website that features Celtic designs for shirts. The combination of the two is a wonderful juxtaposition.
The ability to control that is exercised by the state is directly connected to the sense of a
control group in an experiment. In that context the control group is considered a normal standard while the experimental group must be measured against it. Any act of discipline or regulation is made possible by the completion of normality in a society. These standards are enforced by the various techniques of social and political control in more minute and particular ways.
Here is an example of a type of art that is a mixing of media. It is a combination of photography and acrobatics that results in pictures that seem to portray the impossible. In fact it is very hard to ascertain how these pictures were created since the laws of physics seem to be broken.