Chaosophy - autonomous learning

figures, and the encounters between independent series that are at
the base of this society, a desire that elicits a love "for its own sake,"
a love of capital for its own sake, a love of bureaucracy for its own
sake, a love of repression for its own sake, all sorts of strange things
such as "What does a capitalist desire from the bottom of his heart"
and "How is it possible that men desire repression not only for
others but for themselves" and so on.
Secondly, the fact that desiring-machines are the internal limit,
as it were, of the technical social machines is more easily understood
if one bears in mind that the full body of a society, its
engineering agency, is never given as such, but must always be
inferred from terms and relations coming into play in that society.
The full body of capital as a proliferating body, Money that produces
more Money, is never given in itself. It implies a movement
to the limit, where the terms are reduced to their simple forms
taken in an absolute sense, and where the relations are "positively"
replaced by an absence of ties. Consider the capitalist desiringmachine,
for example, the encounter between capital and labor
force, capital as deterritorialized wealth and labor capacity as the
deterritorialized worker, two independent series or simple forms
whose chance meeting is continually reproduced in capitalism.
How can the absence of ties be positive One meets again with
Leclaire's question stating the paradox of desire: how can elements
be bound together by the absence of any ties In a certain sense, it
can be said that Cartesianism, in Spinoza and Leibniz, has not
ceased to reply to this question. It is the theory of real distinction,
insofar as it implies a specific logic. It is because they are really
distinct, and completely independent of each other, that ultimate
elements or simple forms belong to the same being or to the same
substance. It is in this sense, in fact, that a substantial full body
does not function at all as an organism. And the desiring-machine
is nothing other than a multiplicity of distinct elements or simple
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