{"id":30332,"date":"2012-04-05T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tools-only-exist-in-relation-to-the\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:17:58","slug":"tools-only-exist-in-relation-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tools-only-exist-in-relation-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2026 tools only exist in relation to the interminglings they make possible or that make them possible. The stirrup entails a new man\u2013horse symbiosis that at the same time entails new weapons and new instruments. Tools are inseparable from symbioses or amalgamations de\ufb01ning a Nature\u2013Society machinic assemblage. They presuppose a social machine that selects them and takes them into its \u2018phylum\u2019: a society is de\ufb01ned by its amalgamations, not by its tools.<br \/>\nSimilarly, the semiotic or collective aspect of an assemblage relates not to a productivity of language but to regimes of signs, to a machine of expression whose variables determine the usage of language elements. These elements do not stand on their own any more than tools do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Deleuze and Guattari, <em>A Thousand Plateaus,\u00a0<\/em>in Law, <em>After Method<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/20yardsoflinen.tumblr.com\/\">20yardsoflinen<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 tools only exist in relation to the interminglings they make possible or that make them possible. The stirrup entails a new man\u2013horse symbiosis that at the same time entails new weapons and new instruments. Tools are inseparable from symbioses or amalgamations de\ufb01ning a Nature\u2013Society machinic assemblage. They presuppose a social machine that selects them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Te","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}