Chaosophy - autonomous learning

all, because it was in itself the production of organized intensive
states: neither form nor extension, neither representation nor projection,
but pure and recurrent intensities. It sometimes happens,
as in Picabia, that the discovery of the abstract leads to the
machinic elements, while at other times, as in the example of
many a Futurist, the opposite road is traveled. Consider the old
distinction drawn by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, the
distinction between representative states and affective states that do
not represent anything. The machine is the affective state, and it is
false to say that modern machines possess a perceptive capacity or a
memory; machines themselves possess only affective states.
When we contrast desiring-machines and Oedipus, we do not
mean to say that the unconscious is mechanical (machines belong
rather to metamechanics), or that Oedipus counts for nothing. Too
many forces and too many people depend on Oedipus; there are too
many interests at stake. To begin with, there would be no narcissism
without Oedipus. Oedipus will prompt a great many moans and
whimpers yet. It will inspire research projects that are more and
more unreal. It will continue to nourish dreams and phantasies.
Oedipus is a vector: 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 ... Four is the famous fourth
symbolical term, 3 is the triangulation, 2 is the dual images, 1 is
narcissism, and 0 is the death instinct. Oedipus is the entropy of the
desiring-machine, its tendency to external abolition. It is the image
or the representation slipped into the machine, the stereotype that
stops the connections, exhausts the flows, puts death in desire, and
substitutes a kind of plaster for the cracks; it is the Interruptrice
(the psychoanalysts as the saboteurs of desire). For the distinction
between the manifest content and the latent content, for the distinction
between the repressing and the repressed, we must
substitute the two poles of the unconscious: the schizo-desiring
machine, and the paranoiac Oedipal apparatus, the connectors of
desire, and its repressors. Yes, in fact, you will find as much of
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