Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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BALANCE-SH R"D IRING- IN
1. How desiring-machines differ from gadgets-from phantasies
or imaginary projective systems-from tools or real
projective sytems-from perverse machines) which however put
us on the track of desiring-machines.
Desiring-machines have nothing to do with gadgets, or little homemade
inventions, or with phantasies. Or rather they are related, but
from the opposite direction, because gadgets, improvised contraptions,
and phantasies are the residue of desiring-machines; they have
come under the sway of specific laws of the foreign market of capitalism,
or of the home market of psychoanalysis (it is a function of
the psychoanalytic "contract" to reduce the states lived by the
patient, to translate them into phantasies). Desiring-machines
cannot be equated with the adaptation of real machines, or fragments
of real machines, to a symbolical process, nor can they be reduced
to dreams of fantastic machines operating in the Imaginary. In both
instances, one witnesses the conversion of an element of production
into a mechanism of individual consumption (phantasies as psychic
consumption or Psychoanalytic breast-feeding). It goes without
saying that psychoanalysis feels at ease with gadgets and phantasies,
an environment in which it can develop all its castrating Oedipal
obsessions. But that tells us nothing of consequence about machines
and their relation to desire.
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