Chaosophy - autonomous learning

general. An interlocking of full bodies all belonging to the same
series: the full body of capital, that of the factory, that of mechanisms
... (Or indeed the full body of the Greek city-State, that of
the phalange, that of the two-handed shield). The question we
ought to ask is not how the technical machine follows after simple
tools, but how the social machine, and which social machine,
instead of being content to engineer men and machines, makes the
emergence of technical machines both possible and necessary.
(There were many technical machines before the advent of capitalism,
but the machinic phylum did not pass through them,
precisely because it was content to engineer men and tools. In the
same way, there are tools in every social formation which are not
engineered, because the phylum does not pass through them while
the same tools are engineered in other social formations: hoplite
weapons, for example).
The machine understood in this manner is defined as a desiringmachine:
the ensemble composed of a full body that engineers,
and men and tools engineered on it. Several consequences follow
from this view of the machine, but we can only plot them here in
a programmatic way.
Firstly, desiring-machines are indeed the same as technical and
social machines, but they are their unconscious, as it were: they
manifest and mobilize the investments of desire that "correspond"
to the conscious or preconscious investments of interest, the politics,
and the technology of a specific social field. To correspond does
not at all mean to resemble; what is at stake is another distribution,
another "map," that no longer concerns the interests established in
a society, nor the apportionment of the possible and the impossible,
of freedoms and constraints, all that constitutes a society's reasons.
But, beneath these reasons, there are the unwanted forms of a desire
that invests the flows as such, and the breaks in these flows, a desire
that continually reproduces the aleatory factors, the less probable