I will live tweet the best stuff I come across in L'Anti-Œdipe. This is the thread. Buckle up, western man.
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But, with Oedipus, the discovery of desiring-production was overshadowed by a new idealism: to the unconscious as factory, an Antique theatre was substituted; to the productive unconscious, was substituted an unconscious that could only express itself (myth, tragedy, dream).
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As soon as we put desire on the side of acquisition, we make desire an idealistic (dialectical, nihilistic) conception which determines desire in the first place as lack, lack of object, lack of the real object.
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If desire produces, it produces reality. If desire is a producer, it can only be in reality, and of reality. The real results from it, is the result of passive syntheses of desire as self-productions of the unconscious. Desire does not lack anything, it does not lack its object.
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It is rather the subject that lacks to desire, or desire that lacks a fixed subject; the fixed subject only exists through repression. Desire and its object are one, and they are the machine, as machine of a machine.
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The objective being of desire is the Real itself. There is no particular form of existence which could be named a psychic reality.
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Social production is desiring production itself under determinate conditions. The social field is the historically determined product of desire, and libido has no need of any mediation or sublimation in order to invest the productive forces and the relations of production.
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Desiring machines do not cease to break down while working, and only work when breaking down: always some production is grafted on the product, and the pieces of the machine are also its fuel.
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Capitalism establishes or restores residual or fake territorialities, imaginary or symbolic [...] Everything returns or is replayed: States, nations, families. Thus capitalism, in its ideology, is "the variegated painting of every- and anything that was once believed".
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The more the capitalist machine deterritorializes, decoding and axiomatizing flows in order to extract plus-value withal, the more its annexed bureaucratic and police appartus will re-territorialize while absorbing an increasing part of plus-value.
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