#face machine

[feelingpolitical]

Hobbes's leviathan (artificial body) as faciality/face-machine

[feelingpolitical]

This machine is called the faciality machine because it is the social production of face, because it performs the facialization of the entire body and all its surroundings and objects, and the landscapification of all worlds and milieus. The deterritorialization of the body implies a reterritorialization on the face; the decoding of the body implies an overcoding by the face; the collapse of corporeal coordinates or milieus implies the constitution of a landscape. The semiotic of the signifier and the subjective never operates through bodies. It is absurd to claim to relate the signifier to the body. At any rate it can be related only to a body that has already been entirely facialized.

Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, “Year Zero: Faciality," 181