Meaning of clockwork orange | Babel Free

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A person or organism with a mechanistic morality or lack of free will.

Examples

“Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical."”

“The telos of the pathologization of crime is the perfected robot or “clockwork orange” of present-day behaviorism and sociobiology, descendants of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century associationists like Jeremy Bentham.”

“This one took reality to be a large machine, a ‘clockwork orange', an automaton.”

“Under the archbishop's ceiling, the self is not a clockwork orange programmed by the state but something more unnerving: Peer Gynt's onion, layers of performance without a core.”

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