A Brief Outline of Anti-Oedipus

Adapted from Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari (New York: Routledge, 1989).
I.all desire is social; best guide to social desire is schizophrenic id rather than neurotic ego. A.schizo-analysis: focus on body parts and social connections: 1.not a "celebration" of schizophrenia, but use of it to explore contemporary society .indi!idual sub"ect as heterogenous aggregate of parts functioning in social and natural machines #.subsume $arx and %reud in single &ietzschean frame'or(: desiring-production. 1.criti)ue of traditional $arxism and %reudianism .history and politics of social libido II.*riti)ue of %reudianism: extending %reud beyond family A.+edipal-capitalism lin( ignored 1.+edipus is mode of channeling desire .psychoanalysis reinforces this channeling #.*apitalism and desire 1.deterritorializes: a.destroys feudal hierarchial channels b.sets adrift pieces of desire, bodies, etc. .reterritorializes: a.channels all production into commodity form b.+edipalization concentrates, indi!idualizes desire into neurotic daddy-mommy-me ,.schizophrenia is result of fragmentation 'ithout +edipal reintegration *.-ositi!e desire: 1.desire traditionally seen as lac( a.cf -lato b.exception: .pinoza c./acan most e!ident example today .for 0 1 2, this is negati!e, reacti!e, idealistic, sla!ish ,.rather, they 'ant positi!e, producti!e desire a.desiring-production 314%reud5s libido 3 4&ietzsche5s 'ill-to-po'er b.unconscious 314unrelated to negation 3 4indifferent to personal identity 3,4independent of linguistic expression c.pure multiplicities: nomadic singularities III.*riti)ue of $arx: libidinalizing $arx A."social field is immediately in!ested '6 desire" 1.no distinction bet'een production and consumption #."e!erything is production" 1.no distinction bet'een use and exchange !alue a.use !alue depends on stable needs, but needs are mobile, produced 3as $arx (ne' !ery 'ell4

I7..chizo-model for desiring production 3&ot a romanticizing of schizophrenia, but using it to interrogate modern production A.desiring-machines: in!asion6persecution 1.production proper .cutting off primary flo's a.symbolizes unceasing production b.e.g. flo' of mil( bet'een 314breast machine

3 4mouth machine ,.lin(ed in chains 'ith other machines a.in body b.other bodies c.nature d.society 8.unconscious is a factory rather than a theater 9.rather than lin(ing dependent parts into a functioning 'hole, desiring machines in!ol!e heterogenous "parts" in a connecti!e synthesis #.body 'ithout organs: catatonia 1.recording 3distribution and exchange 6 unconscious inscription .congealing of d-machines into undifferentiated ob"ect a.d-machines at zero intensity ,.extra part produced alongside desiring machines a.paranoiac machine: body '6o organs repels d-m b.miraculating machine: " " " " attracts d-m 8.socius: larger social body '6o organs a.body of earth: 314primiti!e 3 4autochthonous myths :miraculating; b.body of despot 314barbaric 3 4di!ine origin and absolute po'er myths :miraculating; c.body of capital 314capitalistic 3 4fetishism: capital appears to produce labor :miraculating; 9.each chain of d-machines is a line tra!ersing body '6o organs, thus forming a grid <.dis"uncti!e synthesis: all lines are libidinally in!ested at once in a synthesis that affirms differentiation *.nomadic sub"ect: multiple personalities 1.consumption .'hen social codes :e.g. +edipus; brea( do'n in their channelling of desire, then the nomadic sub"ect is possible, tra!ersing the lines of the d-machines inscribed on the body '6o organs 0.$odel of the giant egg tra!ersed by lines 'ith a 'andering point of pure intensity 7.=istory of social machines A.primiti!e territories 1.pre-state: resist centralization of po'er .socius: body of the earth ,.codes: (inship relations coding flo' of goods, pri!ilege, people, prestige a.filiation: fixed "capital" stoc( 314blood 3 4administrati!e 3,4hierarchial b.alliance: mobile bloc(s of debt 314marriage 3 4political 3,4economic 8.debt: a.primary dissymmetry setting in motion flo's b.ceremonial inscription 'ithin systems 314gi!er: debtor 3 4recei!er: surplus !alue of code 9.representation: a.ceremonial system is a writing in 'hich 'ords pronounced and signs 'ritten are pluri!ocal b.system is also libidinal economy of pleasure and pain 314cf. &ietzsche and debtor-creditor #.barbarian despotic states

1.befalls primiti!e territories as catastrophe from 'ithout .socius: body of despot ,.codes:functional pyramid a.despot at apex b.peasant at base 8.debt: a.primiti!e debt become infinite debt of existence o'ed to despot b.punishment no longer festi!e, but !engeful 9.representation: a.fixed meanings b.deterritorialization of graphic sign: made into transcription of the !oice c.sound gi!en meaning by transcendent authority enforcing la' of linguistic regularity :dream of transcendental signifier; 314.aussurian linguistics is reflection on despotic representation 3 4signifier dominates the signified 3a4t'o forces: i4deterritorializing of signifiers :creates arbitrary flo'; ii4fixing of signifier-signified 3b4signifier is arbitrary, but also "acoustic image" 'ithin 'hich resounds "mute !oice from on high" *.ci!ilized capitalist production 1.capitalist machine arises from 'ithin .socius: body of capital ,.debt: a.deterritorialized into abstract unit of exchange: free flo's of goods, bodies, images, etc b.reterritorialized thru an axiomatic, 3a4con"oining t'o flo's 3b4 of labor 3c4 of capital 314direct relation of entities on abstract )ualities 3 4no limit: can al'ays add ne' axiom 8.representation: a.brea(s free of .aussurian domination b.means nothing: simply functions as means of co-ordination of flo's 9.post-state: capitalist state is hango!er a.cap sign does not simply replace despotic sign, but reintegrates it b.absorption yet indigestibility pro!o(es oscillation bet'een t'o poles of desire 314paranoia 3metaphysics>4 3a4domination 3b4hierarchy 3c4molar aggregates 3 4schizophrenia 3a4non-systematic 3b4nomadic 3c4molecular 7I..chizo-politics: A.o!ercoming paranoiac tendencies by intensifying schizophrenic tendencies, 1.accelerating deterritorialization .for those trapped in hierarchies ,.micro-political inter!ention 8.good for inter!ention in hierarchial parties #.politics of creati!ity: 1.freeing of ne' patterns: .horizontal rather than !ertical *.%oucault: po'er as primary 0.0eleuze and 2uattari: desire as primary