Tur(n)ing bachelor machine. Towards articulations of the universal machine unconscious
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The Bachelor machine is an articulation of the universal myth of the mechanical age (Carrouges M. 1954). We can find different Bachelor machine models in the art world. They gain usually shape of the blueprint, the diagram, or the “Other” machine, in all cases referring towards un-presentable obsessions (Schneemann 1975). I will interpret Alan M. Turings concept of the universal machine (lately called the Turing machine), the blueprint of the computer technology, as “the philosophical toy”, which belongs by its genealogy to the family of bachelor machines too. My argument starts from the fact, that the contemporary universal machine, the computer at large, is a descendant of the analogue (discrete) machines, the typewriter in particular (Kittler F. 1986). I will stress two aspects of to the Universal Machine structure: a) The Universal Machines isolation from the outer world which is one of its axiomatic features, was in fact never fully accomplished wish of the author (see Fuller 2008). b) The Turing test of the Universal machine intelligence includes significant slips in these moments, when the mathematician refers to the gender identity (Hodges, A. 1992). The paper is a homage to Alan M. Turing, whose 100 years birthday anniversary we celebrate in the year 2012. Alan Turing is a man whose life and death deserve to be perceived together with e.g. the story of free information a core part of the computer age mythology. |