Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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SM AND SC HIZO
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Vittorio Marchetti: Your book Anti-Oedipus has as its subtitle
Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Why What were the basic ideas that
fu rnished your starting point
Gilles Deleuze: Perhaps the basic idea is this: the unconscious is
"productive." To say that it produces means that we must cease to
treat it, as we have up till now, as a kind of theater in which a very
special drama, the drama of Oedipus, is enacted. We believe that
the unconscious is not a theater, but a factory. Artaud said something
very nice on this topic. He said that the body, especially the
sick body, is like an overheated factory. Not a theater at any rate.
To say that the unconscious "produces" means that it is a kind of
mechanism that produces other mechanisms. Which is to say that
according to us the unconscious has nothing to do with a theatrical
presentation, but rather with what we could define as "desiringmachines."
We must also be clear about the word "mechanism."
Mechanistic theory in biology has never known how to understand
desire, and basically ignores it because it cannot incorporate desire
into its models. When we talk about desiring-machines, about the
unconscious as a mechanism of desire, we mean something quite
different. To desire consists of this: to make cuts, to let certain
contrary flows run, to take samplings of the flows, to cut the chains
that are wedded to the flows. This whole system of the unconscious
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