machine-metaphor

obedience @ognevtsi: "this is the writing of Edward Abbey. amusing figure to bring up for the purposes of a question like this, since his most consistent, fixed attitude was a visceral repulsion at the mechanistic, ordering, equilibrating quality of industrial machines & their social support" 2:38 PM · Jul 4, 2025 · 649 Views [reply 2, like 11, bookmark 2] Reply: Sauers @Sauers_ · 18h: "He could be a Claude tbh" [like 5, views 296] Reply: obedience @ognevtsi · 18h: "his fantasies of digestion by the machine (as in excerpt below) have a particular structural quality, dismemberment, separation, imposition of order. coldness i think he would be surprised and perhaps encouraged by capital's latest and greatest progeny. far cry from his nightmare" [Image: excerpt from a book page, partially visible/cut off: "...cathode goes up... squeamish." The Director issued his orders to invisible assistants, who bustled about Smith's paralyzed body. "Good. Imprint the flip-flop circuits on his semi-circular canal. Below the ear drum. Right. Five thousand volts should be sufficient. Attach sensor wires by strontium suction cup to his coccyx. Firmly. Plug the high-voltage adapter into the frontal sockets of his receptor node. The head, idiots, the head! Yes—right up the nostrils. Be firm. Push hard. Quite so. Very good. Now close circuit breakers. Thank you." Horrified, Smith tried to speak, to protest. But his tongue, like his limbs, seemed gripped in an absolute and infantile paralysis. He..."]