Machine rhythm fuses sexuality and labor into one unconscious automatism.

Evidence

The machine process in the technological universe breaks the innermost privacy of freedom and joins sexuality and labor in one unconscious, rhythmic automatism—a process which parallels the assimilation of jobs. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 175

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends Sartre’s observation into the claim that mechanization colonizes ‘the innermost privacy of freedom.’
• XREF: connects to: Machine mastery perpetuates rather than ends enslavement — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 635; Speculative automatism regulates the processing of the event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1103; Industrial rationalization of production requires rationalizing the sexual instinct — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1102 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Industrial rationalization of production requires rationalizing the sexual instinct #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1102
• Speculative automatism regulates the processing of the event #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1103
• Machine mastery perpetuates rather than ends enslavement #complicates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 635