Chaosophy - autonomous learning

differentiation in the unconscious, or, on the contrary, in order to
blow this wall to pieces, to abolish it on behalf of nonhuman sex.
In its very violence, the desiring-machine is a trial of the whole
social field by desire, a test whose outcome can just as well be
desire's triumph as its oppression. The test consists in the following:
given a desiring-machine, how does it make a relation of production
or a social difference into one of its component parts, and what is
the position of this part What about the millionaire's stomach in
Goldberg's drawing, or the masturbating guard in Genet's film
image Isn't a captive factory boss a component of a factory desiringmachine,
a way of responding to the test
Fourthly, if sexuality as an energy of the unconscious is the
investment of the social field by the desiring-machines, it becomes
apparent that a social attitude vis-a.-vis machines in general in no
way expresses mere ideology, but the position of desire in the infrastructure
itself, the mutations of desire in terms of the breaks and
the flows that pervade this field. That is why the theme of the
machine has a content that is so emphatically, so openly sexual. The
epoch of the First World War was the meeting ground of the four
great attitudes centering around the machine: the great molar exaltation
of Italian Futurism, which counts on the machine to develop
the national productive forces and to produce a new national man,
without calling in question the relations of production; that of
Russian Futurism and Constructivism, which conceive the machine
in terms of new relations of production defined by collective appropriation
(the tower-machine of Tatlin, or that of Moholy-Nagy,
expressing the famous party organization as a democratic centralism,
a spiral model, with a summit, a driving belt, and a base; the relations
of production continue to be external to the machine, which
functions as an "index"); the Dadaist molecular machinery, which,
for its part, brings about a reversal in the form of a revolution of
desire, because it submits the relations of production to the trial of
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