Oh, and I know it’s just one of the abstract machines — but I wonder what you think about their treatment of faciality…? I wonder if Levinas doesn’t fit in here, with the full force and furor of the Marxist critique as well. The ethical relation of the face to face is an immanent alterity, productive and originating new planes of consistency — the origin of the diagram itself. Why is the face both a black hole and a white wall? In a sense the face is just a machine like any other — but before it is a machine, it is a machinic interface, right? The Other, exteriority, multipliticity, is an ally first (potentially, anyway.) One of the most important ‘abstract’ operations is completely materialistic, as it were: forging lateral alliances.

Thanks for this!

Joe