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pli 7
"pli 7" focuses on modulation, affect, or automation to show how control operates through distributed adjustment rather than fixed command.
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Core idea
These texts treat control as environmental tuning rather than sovereign command. Affect, automation, and recursive adjustment describe how systems steer behavior without relying on rigid boundaries.
The pages work by connecting cybernetic feedback to image systems, automated environments, or nano-scale intervention. Modulation becomes a way of governing by continuously recalibrating a field.
That matters because the archive's viral metaphors need an account of how environments are actively tuned. Control is not only repressive; it is adaptive, affective, and distributed.
How to read this text
Read for the vocabulary of modulation, affect, or recursion before following the broader philosophical claims.
Track where automation becomes environmental rather than merely mechanical. That is usually the strongest conceptual turn.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 38
The disciplinary machine determined that a representational-signifying regime was dominant in the 18th and 19th centuries. The abstract machine of control utilises an affective-simulational regime of signs. It is this change in the make-up of the mixture of regime of signs that allows for the advert-Consumer assemblage as an emergent phenomenon.
Definition · paragraph 38
The abstract machine of control utilises an affective-simulational regime of signs. It is this change in the make-up of the mixture of regime of signs that allows for the advert-Consumer assemblage as an emergent phenomenon. Additionally the abstract machine of control does not differentiate between spaces, nor time in the way that the disciplinary machine did.
Definition · paragraph 38
Why, and this is really the same question, do we go from the Labourer to the Consumer? However, to ask these questions is to totally misunderstand the phenomenon of emergence. The disciplinary abstract machine and the abstract machine of control utilise different regimes of signs.
Definition · paragraph 38
How, though, do we get from khaki uniforms to adverts? Why, just because the disciplinary machine organized the increase in the productive capacity of docile bodies (i.e. the production of production), should the abstract machine of control organize the production of demand?
History · paragraph 43
When discussing the regime of order-words that resisted watch-words that were later to form the organization of the abstract machine of control, I will use the term pass-word. This last use does run against its use in the last part of Postulates of Linguistics but too bad.
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.