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- adjective Of or relating to
machines .
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Examples
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How was arnold in terminator series turned into machinic endoskeleton?
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This hiss of the radio sounded like the voice of the tired highway, the machinic death rattle of an instrument caught in the loop of its own unending demise.
Excerpt from Crackle 2010
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Symbolic and thus culture; instead, for the schizophrenic, everything that happens takes place on the surface of the Real: "The true difference in nature is not between the Symbolic and the Imaginary, but between the real machinic (machinique) element, which constitutes desiring-production, and the structural whole of the Imaginary and the Symbolic, which merely forms a myth and its variants" (83).
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I might suggest that, as the advancing, aesthetic potential of our machines begins increasingly to discredit the romantic paradigm of inspiration, poets of the future might have to take refuge in a new set of aesthetic metaphors for the unconscious, adapting by adopting a machinic attitude, placing the mind on autopilot in order to follow a remote-controlled navigation-system of mechanical, conceptual procedures — be they automatic, aleatoric, or mannerist, in their theories ….
Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The ultimate readibility of this work depends on its human (sublime?) qualities and not its aspects of machinic parody.
Quick Review 02 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It should be noted that these are another set of human-machinic assemblages rather than an enabling of the body without organs.
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What this might mean for future SF and our engagement with organic and machinic technologies I do not know.
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I often joke that we are probably the first generation of poets who can reasonably expect to write literature for a machinic audience of artificially intellectual peers.
Poetic Machines 01 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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What this might mean for future SF and our engagement with organic and machinic technologies I do not know.
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It should be noted that these are another set of human-machinic assemblages rather than an enabling of the body without organs.
Neurosky Mindset Human-Computer Interface Enables Mind Bullets 2009
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