Little Machines

X: Where do you place the proletarian, then?

... In a world in which there has emerged, in a way that actually does exist, that is a presence in the world, not the thought of science, but science objectified in some way, I mean these things entirely forged by science, ... gadgets and things, which at the moment occupy the same space as us - in a world in which this emergence has taken place, can know-how at the level of manual labor carry enough weight to be a subversive factor? This is how, for me, the question arises.

What do you do with all I tell you? You record it on a little machine, and afterward, you give parties which you hand out invitations to - that's a Lacan tape for you.1

Footnotes

  1. Lacan, Jacques. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVII. Translated by Russell Grigg. 1st edition. New York (N. Y.): W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. p 149 ↩