Chaosophy - autonomous learning

art, social life, etc., is the exclusive concern of specialists. So many
things that seemed to belong unquestionably to everyone, like
water, air, energy, and art, are now about to become the property
of new industrial and commercial branches. So why not fantasies
and desire as well
I am interested in a totally different kind of unconscious. It is
not the unconscious of specialists, but a region everyone can have
access to with neither distress nor particular preparation: it is open
to social and economic interactions and directly engaged with
major historical currents. It is not centered exclusively around the
family quarrels of the tragic heroes of ancient Greece. This
unconscious, which I call "schizoanalytic," as opposed to the
psychoanalytic subconscious, is inspired more by the "model" of
psychosis than that of neurosis on which psychoanalysis was built.
I call it "machinic" because it is not necessarily centered around
human subjectivity, but involves th'e most diverse material fluxes
and social systems. One after the other, the old territories of Ego,
family, profession, religion, ethnicity, etc., have been undone and
deterritorialized. The realm of desire can no longer be taken for
granted. This is because the modern unconscious is constantly
manipulated by the media, by collective apparatuses and their
cohorts of technicians. It is no longer enough to simply define it in
terms of an intrapsychic entity, as Freud did when he was conceiving
his different topics. Would it suffice to say that the machinic
unconscious is more impersonal or archetypical than the traditional
unconscious Certainly not, since its "mission" is precisely to
circumscribe individual singularities more closely, in order to tie
them down more strictly to social relations and historical realities
of the "machinic age." Simply put, the questions raised by the
unconscious no longer fall squarely within the realm of psychology.
They involve the most fundamental choices for both society and
desire, "existential choices" in a world which is criss-crossed by a
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