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Central to the construction of a recombinant mechanism is the concept of "conceptual machine". A conceptual machine can be defined as a machine engendered by language and in some cases, via images. The conceptual machine can bridge artistic, philosophical and technological realms. They are generative by nature.

Continued: Sometimes flights were staring her right in the page. But it only made her ask, "How do you ever justify, in terms of reason, a refusal to define something? Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them." She could hold off attacks with fancy dialectical footwork and insults (when she could bring herself to talk, she was rather good at that sort of thing, having read Adorno before reaching menses) but sooner or later she was going to have to come up with something more substantial than that. Her attempt to come up with something substantial led her beyond the realms of traditional rhetoric into the domains of outside and other forgotten philosophers.

She knew she was involving herself in a kind of intellectual suicide. She'd read the philo-biographies and understood where this line of thought generally ended. But she was a hunter and knew killing well and that death was spelled l-i-f-e in other languages.

Consequently, one of the main goals of the plagiarist is to restore the dynamic and unstable drift of meaning, by appropriating and recombining fragments of culture. In this way, meanings can be produced that were not previously associated with an object or a given set of objects.
The production of the text presupposes its immediate distribution, consumption, and revision. All who participate in the network also participate in the interpretation and mutation of the
textual stream. The concept of the author did not so much die as it simply ceased to function. The author has become an abstract aggregate that cannot be reduced to biology or to the psychology of personality. Indeed, such a development has apocalyptic connotations - the fear that humanity will be
lost in the textual stream. Perhaps humans are not capable of participating in hypervelocity. One must answer that never has there been a time when humans were able, one and all, to participate in cultural production. Now, at least the potential for cultural democracy is greater. The single
bio-genius need not act as a stand-in for all humanity. The real concern is just the same as it has always been: the need for access to cultural resources.