Chaosophy - autonomous learning

understand how you have "engineered" your work. This would be
particularly valuable for the analysis-the schizoanalysis, perhaps­
of the political cogs of the text. It would be particularly interesting
to know how fascism and May '68, the dominant "note" of the
book, intervened, not "molarly," that would be too banal, but
"molecularly," in the fabrication of the text.
Serge Leclaire: Actually I get the impression that this book is
engineered so that every intervention "on the molecular level" will
be digested by the machine of the book.
I think that, by your own admission, your intention to come
up with "a book where all possible duality would be suppressed"
was achieved beyond your wildest hopes. That puts your readers, if
they are somewhat perceptive, in a situation that leaves them only
the prospect of being absorbed, digested, tied up and quashed in
the admirable operationality of this machine.
So there is a dimension here that I question, and that I would be
willing to ask you about, namely, what is the function of such a bookcontraption
[livre-machinJ 1 Because at first it seems to be perfectly
totalizing, absorbing, liable to integrate and absorb all the questions
one might attempt to raise, by backing the interlocutor into a
corner by the very fact that he is speaking and asking a question.
Let's do this experiment right away, if you will, and let's see
what happens.
One of the major parts of the desiring-machines, if I have
understood you properly, is "the partial object," which, for someone
who has not yet managed to get rid altogether of the psychoanalytic
uniform, calls to mind a psychoanalytical concept, namely, the
Kleinian one of the "partial object." Even if one claims, as you do,
not without humor, to "make fun of concepts."
In this use of the partial object as an essential part of the
desiring-machine, one thing seems to me very significant: you still
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