Vale, Nádia de Oliveira Martins do2024-05-152024-05-152024-03-21http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64758The Epileptic Machine is a concept I developed, based on the philosophical assumptions of Gilles Deleuze's Machines, in order to explain the convulsive, lucid and erotic mechanics of heteronyms (alternative personae) and the studio as impermanent and porous works of art. Multiplicity and fragmentation are a symptom not only of autobiography, but of the entire biological and historical context, because although identity is a central theme in this research, it is also due to the inherent subjectivity of what I consider to be a historical skin. Epileptic Machines are intrinsically linked to life, yet they wander between fiction and reality, sometimes settling and feeding on imaginary and absurd solutions, in a 'Pataphysical' parable. Between academic and scientific writing, artistic and full of intentional parentheses, this research questions all the mechanisms that lead Epileptic Machines to also reveal themselves as War Machines, in other words, machines with the capacity to friction against the system, change it from within, opening up gaps sufficiently charged with creative, political and social power.porMáquinasPelePatafísicaIdentidadeEstudiosHeteronímiaPinturaEnsaiosdoctoral thesis101749562