As Maurizio Lazzarato states in the epilogue to this book, Thousand Machines manages to knot the machine concept (put into circulation by Deleuze and Guattari) in an innovative way with the Marxist tradition that has been expressed for several decades in post-liberal thinking. Emulating the classic Thousand plateaus and making unique use of art criticism and film and textual analysis (parade in the book Flann O'Brien, Alfred Jarry, Franz Kafka, Vittorio de Sica, Themroc and Jacques Tati), Gerald Raunig se It refers to the semantic origins of an idea of ​​"machine" that amalgams technical and invention, politics and nomadism, art and theatricality. Said genealogy, in the Foucaultian way, record the unusual war machines and war tactics of deception in Antiquity, the deus ex machina of Greek theater, the aggressions to naturalism of the bourgeois classical representation exercised by the politicized historical avant-gardes (exemplified in the tandem Eisenstein / Tretyakov) or the historical drift of the concept of general intellect, to lead to a plethora of recent practices: MayDay, PublixTheatreCaravan, Chainworkers, Noborder and bordercamps, the counter-summits of the global movement, Yomango, Critical Mass, LadyFest and a long etcetera . What ultimately motivates this book is the urgency to investigate the concatenations and machinic agencies, in the creative forms of organization and action adapted to face the flexible and unstable conditions that characterize our era of precariousness.