Chaosophy - autonomous learning

forms that are bound together on the full body of a society, precisely
to the extent that they are "on" this body, or to the extent that they
are really distinct. The desiring-machine as a movement to the
limit: the inference of the full body, the eliciting of simple forms,
the assigning of absences of ties. The method employed in Marx's
Capital takes this direction, but its dialectical presuppositions
prevent it from reaching desire as a part of the infrastructure.
Thirdly, the relations of production that remain outside the
technical machine are, on the contrary, internal to the desiringmachine.
Admittedly, they no longer exist as relations, but as parts
of the machine, some being elements of production, and others
elements of antiproduction.16 J.J. Lebel cites the example of certain
sequences of Genet's film that form a desiring-machine of the
prison: two prisoners locked in adjoining cells, one of whom blows
smoke into the other's mouth through a straw that passes through a
little hole in the wall, while a guard masturbates as he watches. The
guard is both an element of antiproduction and a voyeur component
of the machine: desire is transmitted through all the parts. This
means that desiring-machines are not pacified; they contain dominations
and servitudes, death-carrying elements, sadistic parts and
masochistic parts that are juxtaposed. Precisely in the desiringmachines,
these parts assume, as do all the others, their strictly
sexual dimensions. This is not to say, as psychoanalysis would have
it, that sexuality has at its disposal an Oedipal code that would
supplement the social formations, or even preside over their mental
genesis and organization (money and anality, fascism and sadism,
and so forth). There is no sexual symbolism, and sexuality does not
designate another "economy," another "politics," but rather the
libidinal unconscious of political economy as such. The libido, the
energy of the desiring-machine, invests every social difference as
being a sexual difference, including class differences, racial differences
and so on, either in order to guard the wall of sexual