freedom narratives habitually. But who has access to freedom? Who can breathe free? Those narratives do not ameliorate this lack; this lack is the atmosphere of antiblackness."
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

LIFE, BY CONTRAST, IS EXPERIENCE, THAT IS TO SAY, IMPROVISATION, THE UTILIZATION OF OCCURRENCES, IT IS AN ATTEMPT IN ALL DIRECTIONS

The living organism acts in accordance with empiricism, whereas the machine, which is the product of calculation, verifies the norms of calculation, that is, the rational norms of identity, consistency, and predictability. (...)

IN THE ORGANISM, BY CONTRAST, ONE OBSERVES –AND THIS AGAIN IS TOO WELL KNOWN TO BE INSISTED UPON– A VICARIOUSNESS OF FUNCTIONS – A POLYVALENCE OF ORGANS. DOUBTLESS, THIS VICARIOUSNESS OF FUNCTIONS AND POLYVALENCE OF ORGANS ARE NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT THEY ARE SO MUCH GREATER THAN IN THE MACHINE

IT CAN EASILY BE SAID THAT THERE IS MORE PURPOSE IN THE MACHINE THAN IN THE ORGANISM, BECAUSE THE PURPOSE OF THE MACHINE IS RIGD, UNIVOCAL, UNIVALENT. A MACHINE CANNOT REPLACE ANOTHER MACHINE. (...)

Standardization IS THE SIMPLIFICATION OF MODELS AND REPLACEMENT PARTS, THE RENDERING UNIFORM OF METRIC AND QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS, WHICH ALLOWS FOR THE INTERCHANGEABILITY OF PARTS.

In the machine, the rules of a rational accounting are rigorously verified.The whole is strictly the sum of the parts.The effect is dependent on the order of causes. In addition, a machine displays a clear functional rigidity,a rigidity made increasingly pronounced by the practice of standardization