Chaosophy - autonomous learning

are absolutely complementary: a politics of reenclosure on the
person, the self, the appropriation of the other, hierarchy,
exploitation, etc., and a politics of passive acceptance of the
world such as it is.
Against the notions of eros and eroticism, I would like to oppose
those of desire and desiring-energy. Desire is not, like eros, tied down
with the body, the person, and the law; it is no more dependent on
the shameful body-with its hidden organs and its incestuous taboothan
to a fascination with and to myths about the nude body, the all
powerful phallus, and sublimation. Desire is constituted before the
crystallization of the body and the organs, before the division of the
sexes, before the separation between the familiarized self and the
social field. It is enough to observe children, the insane, and the
primitive without prejudice in order to understand that desire can
make love with humans as well as with flowers, machines, or celebrations.
It does not respect the ritual games of the war between the
sexes: it is not sexual, it is transsexual. The struggle for the phallus, the
threat of an imaginary castration, no more than the opposition
between genitality and pregenitality, normality and perversion,
fundamentally concern it. Nothing essential leads to the subjugation
of the child, the woman, or the homosexual. In a word, it is not
centered on dominant significations and values: it participates in
open, asignifying semiotics, available for better or worse. Nothing
depends here on destiny, but on collective arrangements in action.
In conclusion, I must say of the cinema that it can be both the
machine of eros, i.e., the interiorization of repression, and the
machine of liberated desire. An action in favor of the liberty of
expression should therefore not be centered a priori on erotic cinema,
but on what I will call a cinema of desire. The real trap is the
separation between erotic themes and social themes; all themes are
at once social and transsexual. There is no political cinema on the
one hand and an erotic cinema on the other. Cinema is political
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