Chaosophy - autonomous learning

it is itself made up of scraps as in Stankiewicz's Junk Art, or in the
Merz and the house-machine of Schwitters, or, finally, where it
sabotages or destroys itself, where "its construction and the
beginning of its destruction are indistinguishable." In all these
examples (to which should be added narcotics functioning as a
desiring-machine, the junky machine) there appears a properly
machinic death drive that stands in opposition to the Oedipal
regressive death, to psychoanalytic euthanasia. And there is really not
one of these desiring-machines that is not profoundly de-Oedipalizing.
Moreover, it is chance relations that ensure this, without,
between elements which are really distinct as such, or the unconnective
connection of their autonomous structures, following a
vector that goes from mechanical disorder towards the less probable,
and which we call the "mad vector." The importance here of
Vendryes' theories becomes evident, for they make it possible to
define desiring-machines by the presence of such chance relations
within the machine itself, and by its production of Brownoid movements
of the sort observed in the stroll or the sexual prowl. 12 And,
in the case of Goldberg's drawings as well, it is through the realization
of chance relations that the functionality of really distinct elements
is ensured, with the same joy that is present in Tinguely, the schizolaughter.
What is involved is the substitution of an ensemble
functioning as a desiring-machine positioned on a mad vector, for a
simple memorial circuit or for a social circuit (in the first example,
You Sap, Mail that Letter, the desiring-machine pervades and
programs the three automated structures of sport, gardening, and
the birdcage; in the second example, Simple Reducing Machine, the
Volga boatman's exertion, the decompression of the stomach of
the millionaire eating dinner, the fall of the boxer onto the ring,
and the jump of the rabbit are programmed by the record insofar
as it defines the less probable or the simultaneity of the points of
departure and arrival).