@article{Prévost-Balga_2017, title={Three Kubrickian Machinic Characters and their Technical Malfunctions}, volume={6}, url={https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7337}, DOI={10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7337}, abstractNote={Taking as its main reference Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958), this article suggests a technical and philosophical interpretation of three types of machinic malfunction that operate inside the mechanic of three Kubrickian characters: Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) from the eponymous Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Alex (Malcolm McDowell) from A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Private Pyle (Vincent D’Onofrio) in Full Metal Jacket (1987). The goal is to provide renewed interpretative dimensions of symptomatic elements of these Kubrickian characters: technical malfunction, incompleteness, alienation.}, number={12}, journal={Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti}, author={Prévost-Balga, Antoine}, year={2017}, month={Jan.}, pages={9–19} }