Chaosophy - autonomous learning

elationship. There exists the same difference between them as
between the microphysical and the macro physical-it being understood
that the microphysical agency is not the machine-electron, but
molecular machinizing desire, just as the macrophysical agency is not
the molar technical object, but the antidesiring, antiproductive,
molarizing social structure that currently conditions the use, the
control and the possession of technical objects. In our present social
order, the desiring-machine is tolerated only in its perverse forms,
which is to say, on the fringes of the serious utilization of machines,
and as a secondary benefit that cannot be avowed by the users, producers,
or antiproducers (the sexual enjoyment experienced by the
judge in judging, by the bureaucrat in stroking his files ... ). But the
desiring-machine's regime is not a generalized perversion, it is rather
the opposite, a general and productive schizophrenia that has finally
become happy. What Tinguely says of one of his own works applies
to desiring-machines: a truly joyous machine, by joyous I mean free.
3. The Machine and the full body: the investments of the
Machine.
Nothing is more obscure, as soon as one considers the details, than
Marx's propositions concerning productive forces and relations of
production. The broad outline is clear enough: from tools to
machines, the human means of production imply social relations of
production, which however are external to these means and are
merely their "index." But what is the meaning of "index" Why
does Marx project an abstract evolutive line meant to represent the
isolated relationship of man and nature, where the machine is
apprehended starting from the tool, and the tool in terms of the
organism and its needs It then necessarily follows that social relations
appear external to the tool or to the machine, and impose on
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