autopoeitic machines

Autopoietic machines undertake an incessant process of replacement of their components as they must continually compensate for the external perturbations to which they are exposed. (40)

Thus we will view autopoiesis from the perspective of the onto genesis and phlyogenesis proper to a mecanosphere superposed on the biosphere.(40
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The phylogenetic evolution of machinism is expressed, at a primary level, by the fact that machines appear across "generations, " one suppressing the other as it becomes obsolete.

It is at the intersection of heterogeneous machini Universes, of different dimensions and with unfamiliar ontolol ical textures, radical innovations and once forgotten, the reactivated, ancestral machinic lines, that the movement i history singularises itself.

The man-machine alterity is thus inextricably linked to machine-machine alterity which operates in relations of cor plementarity or agonistic relations (between war machines) again in the relations of parts or apparatuses. (41)

The reproducibility of the machine is not a pure programmed repetition. The scansions of upture and indifferentiation, which uncouple a model from jany support, introduce their own share of both ontogenetic and phylogenetic difference.

The relations of technological machines between themselves, and the way their respective parts fit together, presuppose a formal serialisation and a certain perdition of their singularity - stronger than that of living machines - correlative to a distance between the machine manifested in energetico-spatio-temporal coordinates and the diagrammatic machine which develops in more deterritorialised coordinates.

The diagrammatic and its editions, example the key scenario.

I call this operation d alised smoothing and it applies as much to the normal the machine's constitutive materials as it does to thei and functional description.

Machinic Alterity and its forms
We have already encountered a certain number of registers of machinic alterity:

- the alterity of proximity between different machinE between different parts of the same machine;

- the alterity of an internal, material consistency;

- the alterity of formal, diagrammatic consistency; - the alterity of the evolutionary phylum;

- the agonistic alterity between machines of war, whose longation we could associate with the "auto-agonistic" ali of desiring machines which tend towards their own collar and abolition.

Another form of alterity which has only been appro very indirectly, is the alterity of scale, or fractal alterity, , (45)

Multivalence of Alterity
Example: the African legba: pile of sand of multipurpose and heterogenous purposes layered.