Abstract

The purpose of the given article is to show the peculiarities of the postmodernism representatives’ approach to philosophical and historical problems. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in one of their main works, two co-wrote volumes “Capitalizm and Schizophrenia”, are often using the term “machine”. They speak particularly about “the desire-machines”, which are of binary nature. Such character of these machines is explained by the fact, that the basis of their activity are the substance streams, in which the machines makes the cuts. The flows of production intersected, creating the premises for the social machines emergence. It is the primitive society, who creates the social machine for the first time. The land and the people, living on it, are becoming the “Hyle” of this segmentary machine. When, being already on the next stage of social development, the whole primitive system is enslaved and requisitioned by the new powers, the symbolism of the territorial machine is recoded. As a result, as the French authors considered, the immanent unity of the land as an immovable engine concedes to the transcendent unity of the absolutely other nature, the unity of the State, headed by the despot. The state megamachine emerged instead of the territorial one. The megamachine rapes the connection with the early Neolithic complex, from which it appeared. That of the settled peoples is controlled by the tsar. But the primitive machine could have been continued in the other way. The nomads have developed it to “the war-machine”. The nomads withstand the settled people, like the rhizome resists the Hyle. And the war-machine from the very beginning resists the megamachine. A paradox may be noticed in the functioning of this machine: the war is not the purpose of the war-machine. The term “war-machine” may be considered as one of the postmodernism philosophy basic notions, which is directly concerned with such significant notions like “rhizome”, “nomadism”, “nomadology”.