Dissipative Structures & Death

[Terrance]

... the association of time with disorder, decay and death
shaped the imaginations of social philosophers such as Henry
Adams and Oswald Spengler well into the twentieth century. 
Here we may situate Freud's recourse to the discipline of
physics in modeling the  unconscious and the dreamwork,
while anticipating the cultural as well as clinical
implications of Deleuze and Guattari's polemical statement
that "Everything is a
machine" (_Anti-Oedipus_ 2, 8).   

         

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