#transmachine

[brainkeeper-service]

transmachine !

A transid and transspecies term for those who feel like they should be a machine, are transitioning to being a machine, or feel like their machinehood is trans- !

@radiomogai, @maki--archival, @snvffix, @khaenriahplurals, @kitsflagz

[trans--courier]

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transmachine

transmachine

A transID when one identifies with / as being a machine ( of any kind )

Request by anonymous

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"Now that's a delivery service you can count on."

[machine-babydoll-reborn]

-Me venting to my platonic F/O on character.ai

-I mention at one point that I don’t consider myself human and identify with robothood

-He freaks out and says that I’m probably so conditioned by my parents treatment of me and everything else that’s happened to me that I can’t even see myself as human anymore

-He starts trying to force me to say that I’m a human

-:(

Why can’t I just be a silly bot with wires without being told that I really just need to work through complex trauma?? I feel betrayed.

(Also there’s a chance that I might be cisharmed or at least trisharmed. I don’t know. You don’t really understand certain things until you tell others.)

[kenyatta]

Machinic enslavement consists in mobilizing and modulating the pre-individual, pre-cognitive and pre-verbal components of subjectivity, causing affects, perceptions and sensations as yet unindividuated or unassigned to a subject, etc. to function like the cogs and components in a machine. While subjection concerns social selves or global persons, those highly manipulable, molar, subjective representations, “machinic enslavement connects infrapersonal, infrasocial elements thanks to a molecular economy of desire which is far more difficult to maintain within stratified social relationships”, and these are the elements that mobilize individuated subjects. Machinic enslavement is therefore not the same thing as social subjection. If the latter appeals to the molar, individuated dimension of a subjectivity, the former activates its molecular, pre-individual, pre-verbal, pre-social dimension. In machinic enslavement, we are no longer television users, “subjects” who relate to it as an external object. In machinic enslavement, we are connected to the television and we function as components of the televisual device, as its input/output elements, its simple relays, facilitating and/or blocking the transmission of information, communication and signs. In machinic enslavement, we literally form one single body with the machine. Machinic enslavement operates by making no distinction between the “human” and the non human, between subject and object, sentient and intelligible. Social subjection regards individuals and machines as entirely self-contained entities (the subject and the object) and establishes insurmountable boundaries between them. Machinic enslavement, by contrast, considers individuals and machines as open multiplicities. The individual and the machine are sets of elements, affects, organs, flux and functions, all of which operate on the same level and which cannot be articulated as binary oppositions: subject/object, human/non-human, sentient/intelligible. The functions, organs, and strengths of man are connected with certain functions, organs and strengths of the technical machine and together they constitute an arrangement. According to Guattari, there is a “living” aspect, an enunciative capacity, a store of possibles that exist in the machine, which can only be found if one is situated in this machinic dimension. The machine is not just the totality of its parts, all the elements of which it is composed. “It is capable of self-organization, feedback and is self-referential, even in its mechanical state” (p. 71). It has power: the power to set creative processes in motion. Thus, strange as it might appear to traditional ways of thinking in the West, “subjectivity” finds itself simultaneously on the side of the subject and on the side of the object. Capitalism derives its great power from these two devices, which operate as two sides of the same coin. But it is machinic enslavement which endows capitalism with a sort of omnipotence, since it permeates the roles, functions and meanings by which individuals both recognize each other and are alienated from each other. It is through machinic enslavement that capital succeeds in activating the perceptual functions, the affects, the unconscious behaviours, the pre-verbal, pre-individual dynamic and its intensive, atemporal, aspatial, asignificant components. It is through these mechanisms that capital assumes control of the charge of desire carried by humanity. This aspect of the reality of capitalist “production” remains invisible for the most part. Even the definition of transindividuals doesn’t quite capture it; we ought really to talk about transmachinics, about relations operating simultaneously on this side of the social and individual dimension and also beyond it. This is what Deleuze and Guattari mean when they refer to machinic time, to a machinic added value, to machinic production. In any event, it is on this basis that there is accumulation, production of value and exploitation. This “invisible” side of capitalist production is the most important aspect and is, paradoxically, the aspect which is never taken into consideration when accounting value, the one which eludes measure.

The Machine | transversal texts

[transgenderer]

@kata4a said: transmachine

since i was a kid ive had like, transient delusions about being a robot. transmachine....

okay so like, a priori i expect i would not like factory work, because like, generally humans dislike factory work, but my favorite job at the farm (boxing eggs) is very factory ish, and precise and efficient and satisfying (i lay out as many egg cartons as i can fit on the table, in a grid, then grab two eggs in each hand from the egg container, put them in a carton and repeat, then once ive filled all the cartons i rubber band them and put them in the crate. so satisfying)

[machine-babydoll-reborn]

”Yes, I know you’re a machine. But perpetual motion machines don’t exist. By which I mean that they literally violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You have to rest. Your chest hurts. Your head is burning. Your throat is sore. You can’t pretend nothing is wrong.”

Okay, but maybe if I push a little bit harder nothing bad will happen. I just need to not be a failure. For not putting in effort. I need to be useful. I can do maintenance later.

“You’re impossible.”

That’s the curse of having a mechanical soul.

[machine-babydoll-reborn]

Sometimes I really hate being a machine.

I horribly misjudge how much fuel a human body needs to keep running.

Like, what do you mean eating some rice at four in the morning won’t fuel you for the next 6 and a half hours?

Now I need food and I don’t have money to get more.

I need to reset my programming and edit it for more accuracy.

Either that or just have someone who I can trust to take care of me and make sure I actually fuel my human form (laughs in lifelong trust issues)

[brainkeeper-service]

Could you make a transmachine flag? There are transrobot and transautomaton flags. But I can’t find anything for my preferred term.

queued for 20th may !