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Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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Instead of relying on such a binary mechanism-a system of<br />

repression proper and a system of originary repression-the schizoanalytic<br />

unconscious implies a proliferation made up not only of<br />

typical "part objects" -the breast, the feces, the penis; or mathemes<br />

like Lacan's "a-object"-but also a multitude of singular entities,<br />

fluxes, territories, and incorporeal universes, making up fUnctional<br />

arrangements that are never reducible to universals.<br />

To recapitulate some characteristics of the machinic unconscious:<br />

1) It is not the exclusive seat of representative contents (representations<br />

of things or representations of words, etc.). Rather it is<br />

the site of interaction between semiotic components and extremely<br />

diverse systems of intensity, like linguistic semiotics, "iconic" semiotics,<br />

ethological semiotics, economic semiotics, etc. As a<br />

consequence, it no longer answers to the famous axiom formulated<br />

by Lacan, of being "structured like a language."<br />

2) Its different components do not depend upon a universal<br />

syntax. The configuration of its contents and its systems of intensity<br />

(as these may be manifested in dreams, fantasies, and symptoms)<br />

depend upon processes of singularization which necessarily resist<br />

reductive analytic descriptions, like castration or Oedipus complexes<br />

(or intrafamilial systematizations). Collective arrangements<br />

that relate to specific cultural or social contexts account for such<br />

machinic instances.<br />

3) Unconscious interindividual relationships do not depend on<br />

universal structures (like those that the disciples of Lacan try to base<br />

on a sort of "game theory" of intersubjectivity) . Both imaginary<br />

and symbolic interpersonal relations obviously occupy a nodal<br />

point at the heart of unconscious arrangements, but they don't<br />

account for them all. Other, no less essential dispositions, come<br />

from systems of abstract entities and concrete machines that operate<br />

outside human identifications. The machinic unconscious is like<br />

a department store-you can find whatever you want there. This<br />

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