Self Destructing Washing Machine: Death, Life, Erotics

“Am I the only person who felt guilty watching this, it’s like a snuff vid.” - youtube user

“The organism wishes to die only in it’s own fashion.” - Sigmund Freud
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Part 1:

One day, I found myself watching a video of a washing machine destroying itself. It made me think about death. A washing machine is a kernel. It’s essentially made of a core which spins while allowing the flow of water, soap, and energy. This core has another function, it’s the main carrier of a washing machine’s death. The spinning is Eros, it carries Thanatos within it. Imagine a washing machine that spins forever, beyond death, it would eventually cease being what it is.

People on Youtube videos throw bricks and all kind of things into the front load, while the machine takes care of the rest: it starts spinning faster and more violently, it jumps about it’s core, it flips on one side while convulsing like a fish on a boat, until it drops from exhaustion. “If only that machine didn’t spin, it would have survived.” If only death wasn’t immanent in living. “I spin and my death spins within me.”

How do you kill a washing machine in the slowest way possible?
- Load it with the clothes of an entire town and watch it suffocate.
- Keep using it normally.

How do you kill a person in the slowest way possible?
- Let them live.

‘Self Destructing Washing Machine’ uploaded by YouTube user Aussie50: A green backyard, the machine is in the center, spinning towards death- a little faster than earth. As it begins to reach it’s end, it starts doing things a normal machine wouldn’t do. It becomes a super-machine: it jumps above ground level, it opens the front load without any human intervention, it screams like a dying animal, it disintegrates it’s own parts, it pushes the walls of its self, it attempts to fly, it dies. The transformation is complete. But then the guy shooting shows us that the motor is still working. The story is not over yet.

3,589,815 views on YouTube. A death has been made public:

“It looks like it’s about to open a portal to hell or something.”

“When you fap too hard.”

“This looks like me when I get possessed.”

“Persistent mf.”
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Part 2:

Matmos - experimental electronic music duo released an album last February titled: Ultimate Care II. They created the album by sampling a wash cycle of a washing machine. Their project explores brilliantly the repetitive swooshing sounds, the drumming, the electronic sharp and soft beeping sounds, the quirky glitchy noises a washing machine would make in a cycle. A lifetime of repetitive rhythm. The music videos of some of the tracks also show possible erotic formations and fetishes between the machine and the person using it.

In Excerpt Three, we see scenes of a woman holding the machine with her arms while her head lies on top of it; eyes closed in total enjoyment. In other instances, we find her on top of it, either legs dangling down or feet on top with curled toes. In one of the destruction videos, a woman is seen on top of the machine sitting there happily enjoying the vibrations, while a man throws a brick after brick, making the spinning and reverberations faster. “What a weird fetish” a youtuber commented on
Excerpt Three. The music video also shows 3-D renderings of a washing machine, and what appears to be the flowing matter on it’s surface. These renderings expose the unseen possibilities of this mundane object; constellations, vibrations, energy, pleasure, death.

Washing machine, oldest drummer invented on earth. Excerpt Eight from Matmos’s album starts with the sound of approaching sea waves, and then the drumming begins. This track is so sinister, it reeks of doom. The drumming sounds like a warning or a preparation for a ritual. At the end of the track the drumming stops: electronic sounds of a dying machine are heard and the track ends. The machine dies. But it doesn’t end there, in Excerpt Nine, the drumming takes on a different character: vitality and strength. The machine becomes a super-machine. The motor is still working. The story is not over yet.

Let us then send a spinning washing machine to space, put Ultimate Care II inside it, and whoever finds it will know the story of earth.