Machinic vision {delueze, virilio, others}

The history of philosophy has always been the agent of power in philosophy, and even in thought. It has played the repressors role: how can you think without having read Plato, Descartes, Kant and Heidegger, and so-and-so's book about them? A formidable school of intimidation which manufactures specialists in thought - but which also makes those who stay outside conform all the more to this specialism which they despise. An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
Gilles Deleuze

After Reading six we went into a small discussion involving some contemporary issues around the concept of machine, during that discussion I exerted the terms "machinic" and "mechanic" to explain my point of view about the virtuosity and its relation with musical instruments, I should say that i arrived to this definition some time ago reading to the French post-modernists writers. I found a text that I recommend reading it, for its author present a sum-up of visions around the machine as an abstract key model for an industrial and post industrial society understanding. He called them under the name Machinic vision. He based his work on Virilio, and Delueze. I think for those interested on this topic it is a good option to take a look of this text. By John Johnston

• It can be downloaded here: http://pktweb.com/drnn1076/mdm/JohnstonMachinicVision99.pdf
  

We also mentioned several times to Virilio and pointed to him some concepts, here a "nice" and "fast" introduction of some of the Virilio's ideas By David Cook On cTheory.net (a digital-tech_theory journal)

• Virilio: Politics of Real Time: http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=360
  

I hope you get the time to read'em en el futuro.