"And here we might discern the nature of virtuality. I heap endless scorn on the idea that the organization of information resembles the world or seeks to model the world. Rather, the system is not simply about something, it is something. It is a machine that has deterritorialized certain elements of the world and that functions as a machine hooked into all sorts of other machines – physiological, affective, social, bureaucratic, etc. – functioning like a factory so as to produce certain effects. Software releases pure events and separates them from their happening. It proceeds by selection and isolation. In proceeding in this way, like any good factory, it produces something new through subtraction and becomes an entity that itself acts in the world."

– http://delinear.info/delinearinfo/2