Chaosophy - autonomous learning

automatic voice, very short messages, utterances obeying rapid and
monotonous codes. There is the Tiger; it is rumored that there is
even an Oedipus in the network; boys calling girls, boys calling
boys. One easily recognizes the very form of perverse artificial
societies, or a society of Unknowns. A process of reterritorialization
is connected to a movement of deterritorialization that is ensured by
the machine (groups of ham radio transmitters afford the same
perverse structure). It is certain that public institutions are not
troubled by these secondary benefits of a private use of the machine,
in fringe or interference phenomena. But at the same time there is
something more here than a simple perverse subjectivity, be it that
of a group. The normal telephone may be a machine for communication,
but it functions as a tool as long as it serves to project or
extend voices that are not as such a part of the machine. But in our
example communication attains a higher degree, inasmuch as the
voices enter into the make-up of the machine, become components
of the machine, distributed and apportioned in chance fashion by
the automatic device. The less probable is constructed on the basis
of the entropy of the set of voices that cancel each other out. It is
from this perspective that there is not only a perverse use or adaptation
of a technical-social machine, but the superposing of a true
objective desiring-machine, the construction of a desiring-machine
within the technical social machine. It may be that desiringmachines
are born in this way in the artificial margins of a society,
although they develop in a completely different way and bear no
resemblance to the forms of their birth.
In his commentary on this phenomenon of the telephone
exchange, Jean Nadal writes: "It is, I believe, the most successful and
complete desiring-machine I am aware of. It has everything: desire
works freely in it, with the erotic agency of the voice as a partial
object, in the sphere of chance and multiplicity, and connects up
with a flow that irradiates a whole social field of communication
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