Empire wishes the present to be in limbo between what was and what could be. If the body of
christ can be eaten as bread in the present, women are ovens and akin to objects for
extracting, to be eaten from............................
Notes from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, direct quotes and some digested notes
“The body is the body/it is all by itself/and has no need of organs/the body is never an organism/organisms
are enemies of the body”
body without organs – smooth, slippery, opaque, taut surface as a barrier
The genesis of the machine lies precisely here: in the opposition of the body without organs. The anonymous nature of the machine and the non-differentiated nature of its surface are proof of this. Projection enters the picture only secondarily, as does counter investment, as the body without organs invests a counterinside or counteroutisde, in the form of persecuting organ or some exterior agent of persecution.
the socius as a full body forms a surface where all production is recorded, whereupon the entire process appears to emanate from this recording the process of production; but it is not a conscious delirium, or rather is a true consciousness of a false movement, a true perception of an apparent objective movement, a true perception of the movement that is produced on the recording surface.
Capital is the body without organs of the capitalist, or rather, of the capitalist being
Capital becomes a mystic being since all of labour’s social productive forces appear to be due to capital , rather than labour as such, and seem to issue from the womb of capital itself.
All sexuality is a matter of economy
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the machine remains desire, an investment of desire whose history unfolds, by way of the primary repression and the return of the repressed
the data, the bits of information recorded, and their transmission form a grid of disjunctions of a type that differs from the previous connections.
no chain is homogenous
Schizzes have to do with heterogenous chains, and as their bais unit use detachable segments or mobile stocks resembling building blocks or flying bricks
breaks or interruptions are not the result of an analysis; rather, in and of themselves, they are syntheses. Syntheses produce divisions.
desiring production is pure multiplicity – an affirmation that is irreducible to any sort of unity
the body without organs is produced as a whole, but in its own particular place within the process of production, alongside the parts that it neither unifies nor totalizes.
is it possible that, by taking the path that it has, psychoanalysis is reviving an age-old tendency to humble us, demean us, and to make us feel guilty?
modern psychoanalysis is completing the task begun by nineteenth century psychology, namely, to develop a moralized familial discourse of mental pathology, linking madness to the “half-real, half-imaginary dialectic of the family,” deciphering within it “the unending attempt to murder the father,” “the dull thud of instincts hammering at solidity of the family as an institution and at its most archaic symbols”
hence instead of participating in an undertaking that will bring about genuine liberation, psychoanalysis is taking part in the work of the bourgeois repression at its most far reaching level, that is to say, keeping european humanity harnessed to the yoke of daddy-mommy and making no effort to do away with this problem once and for all.