Here is an outline of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Signs and Machines that includes his Intro, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2. It is here that he develops his essential distinction between signifying/asignifying linguistics and their subsequent subjectivites of social subjection/machinic enslavement. A better formatted version is available in the downloads section of this blog. Enjoy!
MAURIZIO LAZZARATO: SIGNS, MACHINES, SUBJECTIVITIES
7 INTRODUCTION
23 – CHP 1 PRODUCTION AND THE PRODUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY
23 – 1. Social subjection and machinic enslavement
29 – 2. Human/machine vs humans/machinies
32 – 3. Egyptian megamachine
34 – 4. The functions of subjection
39 – Capital as a semiotic operator
43 – 1. The concept of “production”
49 – 2. Desire and production
52 – 3. The failure of “human capital”
55 – CHP 2 SIGNIFYING SEMIOLOGIES AND ASIGNIFYING SEMIOTICS IN PRODUCTION AND IN THE PRODUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY
57 – 1. The remains of structuralism: language without structure
66 – 2. Signifying semiologies
68 – i. The Political Function of Semiologies of Signification
72 – ii. Reference, Signification, Representation
80 – 3. Asignifying semiotics Continue reading “Lazzarato, Signs and Machines Outline, Intro-Chp 2”