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I.The Inscribing Socius (139-145)
A.socius: coding desire
1.primitive machines code
flows out of fear of uncoded flows
2.capitalism works w/ uncoded
flows, regulated by axiomatics
a.at its limit we find BwO and d-production
b.thus all history can be seen retrospectively from
B.Marx's rules for reading history
1.contingency, not necessity;
rupture and limit, not continuity
2.universal history: contingent,
singular, ironic, critical
C.Earth as the unity of desire and production; surface
of recording
1.territorial machine =
first form of socius
a.social machine is not the same as a technical machine
b.has men for its parts
c.allows synergy of men and technical machines
d.same machine can be tech and social (e.g., the clock)
2.coding the flows is the
key
D.territorial machine is inscriptive, not exchangist:
1.circulation is not the
key, but inscription
2.mythologies reveal group
fantasy and collective investment
3.series of connections,
distribution, consumptions
4.collective investment
of organs as parts inscribed on earth
a.modernity privatizes organs: first privatized organ was the anus
b.elevated and disinterested anus produces global persons and egos
c.Oedipus is anality: individual overinvestment
E.marking bodies is the key for the primitive territorial
machine
1.distribution of agents
of production
a.criminal deprived of organs
b.full rights-holding man has organs consigned to collective
2.Nietzschean analysis of
memory (cf. Genealogy of Morals)
a.active forgetting of biological memory
b.creation of collective, word memory
(1)signs on the body
(2)system of cruelty:
(a)not a natural violence,
(b)but culture realized in bodies
3.making men and organs
into parts of a social machine
II.The Primitive Territorial Machine (145-153)
A.territorial machine: declining alliance and filiation
on body of earth
1.despotic machine deterritorializes:
records production on body of the despot not earth
2.in analyzing terr. machine,
cannot deduce alliance from filiation
a.filiation is administrative and hierarchial
b.alliance is political and economic
3.filiation and alliance:
two forms of primitive capital
a.filiation: fixed capital/filiative stock
b.alliance: circulating capital/mobile blocks of debt
4.production recorded in
filiation, but economy goes by alliance
5.this is an "open cycle"
of interaction of production and socius
B.must examine concrete relations of filiation and
alliance
1.Leach underscores importance
of local lineages
2.kinship is a practice,
not a structure;
a.marriages can be arranged outside the codes
b.codes appear as closed exchange cycles when severed from political/economic
field
C.the same need for concrete analysis re: whole
project of coding flows
1.praxis ensuring fit of
signifying chain and production flows
a.for example, the hunter: great paranoiac of bush or forest
(1)real displacement of flows
(2)direct filiation w/ the god
b.socius adjacent to production in nomadism:
(1)but the pure nomad hunter does not exist;
(2)a priori encampment for stocking/inscribing/allocating
c.thus always a village pervert to accompany the bush paranoiac
D.fixed socius: appropriating production to itself
1.coding flows happens when
flows and chains correspond
a.flows are subject to deductions to form stock
b.signifying chains are subject to detachments for mediations
2.flow deductions = filiative
stock in the signifying chain
3.chain detachments = mobile
debts of alliance
4.two cycles:
a.vast cycle of flows of production and chains of inscription
b.lesser cycle:
(1)stocks of filiation that connect or encaste flows
(2)blocks of alliance that cause chains to flow
5.stock and debt as energy
a.filiative stock = potential energy
b.alliance blocks = debt = kinetic energy
E.no equilibrium, but functional disequilibrium
of surplus value of code
1.each detachment from chain
produces excess and deficiency
2.compensated for by acquired-prestige
or distributed-compensation
3.functional and fundamental
disequilibrium from circulating debt:
a.an original openness from heterogeneity of elements
b.carries out operations of territorial machine
(1)production: selections from flows
(2)recording: detaching segments from chains
(3)consumption: allocation to persons
F.contra the "ahistoricity" of primitive societies
1.this is a Judeo-Christian
ideology favoring "tragic" cness
2.if history = conflictual
and functional disequilibrium
a.then primitives are historical
b.as shown by their "disharmonies" as Levi-Strauss puts it
c.D/G interpret them as desiring-machines (work by breaking down)
G.territorial machine: segmentary
1.run by fear: suffocation
of decoded flows; cost is dysfunction
2.uses scission to exorcise
fusion;
a.impedes concentration of power
b.to prevent barbaric despot
c.who will overcode their codes
3.greater fear is capitalism:
decoded flows
4.death arising from within,
but coming from without
III.The Problem of Oedipus (154-166)
A.disjunctive synthesis of recording:
1.full body of earth falls
back on production and records it on itself as if it was responsible
a.enchanted surface of inscription
b.magical agent, the fetish, the quasi cause
2.filiation is the first
inscription on full body of the earth
a.inclusive
b.each member is a complete full body, both male and female
c.merely intensive variations
3.while alliance is the
second
a.imposes on productive connections
(1)extensive form of pairing of persons
(2)compatible with disjunction of inscription
b.reacts on inscription: determines exclusive/restricted use
(1)dismembering of full body into sexes
(2)recomposition on new model of alliance
(a)extended memory of words
(b)repressing intense memory of filiation
B.the key concept is the move from intensity to
extension
1.in the intensive order,
signs are ambiguous
2.D/G and Levi-Strauss
a.long citation from Levi-Strauss (156)
b.for D/G, L-S stays with a logical combinatory governing exchanges
c.D/G: physical system (extension)of debts passing/blocking energy
3.mythic return to ambiguous
signs, inclusive divisions, bisexuality
a.mythic names are not those of persons
b.but of intensive variations
4.myth and science: Dogons
as mythic Weismannism: germinative plasma
C.incest prohibition as key to move from intensive
to extension (159)
1.incest w/ sister is intensive;
a manifestation of germinal lineage
2.somatic extension (distinct
persons) only through incest prohibition
a. prohibition re: sister seals lateral alliance
b. prohibition re: mother extends filiation
3.there is no nom du pere
here: what is repressed is not
a.desire for persons, but rather
b.nocturnal memory of intensive germinal filiation
c.for sake of extensive somatic memory
4.extension system born
from but represses intensive conditions
5.impossibility of incest
a.persons are brought into being by the prohibitions (160)
b.as pure limit, one is always before or beyond incest
(1)can have either the person or the name, not both at once
(2)incest as prohibited (persons) represses incest as desired
6.what is desired is germinal
flow, intense earth
a.but what is prohibited is incest w/ persons
b.this is paralogism of social repression
c.Oedipus becomes the displaced represented
D.why is germinal flux repressed? it is an uncodable
flow (162-3)
1.for flows to be codable,
their energy must be quantified/qualified
2.this is possible in extended
system of persons
a.determinate use of signs
b.exclusive use of disjunctive synthesis
c.conjugal use of connective synthesis
3.this is meaning of incest
prohibition as establishing extension
4.passing/blocking of flow
is compensated for by s.v. of code
E.territorial representation (164)
1.representative of desire:
uncodable flows of germinal intensity
2.repressing representation:
alliance; male homosexuality
a.marriage is trading women
b.to connect men
3.displaced represented:
incest: trap for desire
IV.Psychoanalysis and Ethnology (166-184)
A.Oedipus is not primitive (166-71)
1.individuals in family
directly invests social field
2.primitive cures are schizoanalysis
in action
a.social analysis of alliances and filiation
b.= desire related to political and economic units
3.Oedipalization = colonialization;
reduction to the family
a.Oedipus = "euthanasia w/in ethnocide"
b.Oedipus = "the interior colony"
B.the debate over the universality of Oedipus (171-5)
C.Oedipus as limit (175)
1.absolute limit: BwO as
deterritorialized socius
2.relative limit: capitalist
social formation
a.effectively decoded flows
b.organized by quantitative axiomatic that is even more oppressive
3.real limit: autonomous
flows of money and production destroying code
4.imaginary limit: projection
of nightmarish decoded flows onto myth
5.displaced limit: Oedipus
as displaced image of decoded flows
D.conditions for Oedipus (177)
1.social production independent
of familial reproduction
2.detachable fragments of
chain converted into phallus
a.= transcendent detached object
b.crushes polyvocal character
3.phallus performs folding
operation:
a.reduction of social field to familial field
b.one-to-one relations between these two
4.Oedipus must become representative
of desire
5.these are realized in
capitalism, via barbaric transcendent object
6.primitive societies do
not meet these conditions
E.psychoanalysis vs ethnography = meaning vs use
(179)
1.productive vs expressive
unconscious
2.formation is not same
as function
3.but this is only true
at molar level
4.molecular level: use,
function, production, and formation are same
5.example: Turner's analysis
of Ndembu
a.meaning only one element; less important than
b.operative use or positional functioning
F.key to molecular analysis: opening sexuality to
sociohistorical field
1.sexuality = molecular
energy
a.libido: partial objects in connection
b.Numen: inclusive disjunctions on BwO
c.voluptas: distributes states of being and becoming re:
(1)domains of presence (being)
(2)zones of intensity (becoming)
2.desiring-machines: microphysics
of the unconscious
a.molecular d-machines never exist independent of molar aggregates
b.beneath conscious investments in economic, political, religious
c.there is unconscious sexual investment
3.sexuality
a.not molar determination representable in family whole
b.but molecular underdetermination functioning in social aggregates
V.Territorial Representation (184-192)
A.representation is always social and pyschic repression
of d-production
1.various systems using
the three elements
2.principal factor = type
or genus of social inscription
B.primitive society is not exchangist, but socius
is inscriptive
1.debt must be seen as due
to inscription; cruel mnemotechnics
2.Mauss and Levi-Strauss
on debt/exchange
a.Mauss: open question
b.L-S: debt is only a superstructure for reality of exchange
3.D/G: desire does not know
exchange, but only gift and theft
4.in fact, exchange is that
which is excluded in primitive society
5.difference between machine
and structure (186-7): D/G vs L-S
a.machine: functional disequilibrium of physical system of debt
b.structure: logical combinatory; equilibrium of exchange
6.this difference illustrated
in Leach vs L-S on Kachin marriages
7.the problem is the reduction
of social reproduction to circulation
a.thus one misses the real inscriptive instances & forces
b.failing to see alliance as socius appropriating labor connections
C.primitive graphics of debt (188-01)
1.eye grasps equivalence
of voice of alliance and inscribed body
2.this is surplus value
of pain; theater of cruelty
3.Nietzsche's GM
as ethnology
a.debt is direct result of inscription
b.punishment as painful surplus value of code
D.end of the primitive machine; foundation of the
State (191-2)
VI.The Barbarian Despotic Machine (192-200)
A.new socius: new alliance and a direct filiation
(192)
1.direct filiation of despot
w/ the deity
2.great paranoiac machine
a.despot is the paranoiac
b.new perverse groups spread despot's work
3.glorious celibate machine:
exalts triumph of new alliance
4.desert machine/town perverts:
doctors, scribes, priests, officials
B.barbarian despotism: whenever a new overcoding
occurs (193)
1.first founding of empires
2.founding new empire out
of old
3.supplants primitive formation,
which continues to haunt it
a.Marx and Asiatic production
b.full body as socius no longer earth, but body of despot or god
(1)detached object outside signifying chain
(2)convergence of flow selections to sovereign consumption
c.transformation:
(1)stocks now = object of accumulation;
(2)debt now = tribute;
(3)surplus value of code now = object of appropriation
d.social machine now is a "functional pyramid"
e.despotic overcoding is a deterritorialization:
(1)earth is divided
(2)men are inscribed on body of despot (e.g., soldiers = arms)
C.death of primitive machine from w/out; history
is contingency (195)
1.but death arose from w/in:
prefiguration in primitive of despotic
2.what is supressed is not
old system, but its determining character
3.i.e., overcoded by transcendent
unity appropriating surplus value
D.two acts of the state (196):
1.fixing residence is really
an effective de-territorialization:
a.substituting abstract signs for signs of earth
b.earth now object of state ownership (or by rich officials)
2.abolishing small debts
a.state control of money: dread of decoded flows
b.money is means to render debt infinite: debt of existence
E.two aspects of despotic State (198)
1.deterritorialized full
body of despot replaces territorial machine
2.integrates old territorial
machines as organs of new machine
3.thus the essential action
of the State is a second inscription
a.appropriates all agents and forces of production
b.but allows old territories to subsist as "bricks" on new surface
4.State as both abstract
and concrete:
a.state is "original abstract essence"
b.primitive territorial machines are "the concrete itself"
5.essence of the State is
thus overcoding: new imperial inscription
a.countersects all territorial alliance and filiation
b.makes them converge into
(1)direct filiation of despot and deity
(2)new alliance of despot and people (we are all same family)
c.both continuity and break w/ territoriality
(1)continuity: same dread of flows that would resist coding
(2)break: overcoding makes desire into property of the despot
6.infinitization of debt
via deity, not series of ancestors
VII.Barbarian or Imperial Representation (200-217)
A.despotic double incest: (200)
1.overcode all existing
flows
2.incest w/ sister: spatial
divergence: alliance
3.incest w/ mother: temporal
divergence: filiation
B.how is incest now "possible"? (201)
1.incest: as displaced represented,
now repressing representation
2.this is not a removal
of repression, but a new economy of repression
C.change in representation system (202)
1.despot establishes writing
as tied to voice, as subordinate to voice
2.so that now a deterritorialized
abstract flux of writing is freed
3.recall that primitive
graphics are independent of voice
4.reading of Derrida: D/G
see break btw primitive & imperial graphism
D.recap of territorial representation (203)
1.two heterogenous elements:
voice and graphism
a.voice: rep of words constituted in lateral alliance
b.graphism: rep of things, bodies, in extended filiation
2.what is repressed: full
body of intense earth (=germinal flow)
3.this gives way to socius
in extension
4.territorial network is
one of connotation
a.word as vocal sign designates something (e.g., body organ)
b.but this designated thing is no less a sign
c.because furrowed by graphism (initiation scar)
d.connoted in conjunction w/ voice (ritual incantation)
5.heterogeneity of voice
and graph resolved by third element: eye
a.sees the word, doesn't read it
b.= appraises pain of inscribed flesh
6.connotation: system of
cruelty
a.everything a matter of use and function
b.complex network of polyvocal usage
(1)connecting words, bodies, and sufferings
(2)connoting voices, graphic traces and eyes
c.way of jumping that cannot be order of meaning or signifier
7.here, incest is a failed
jump from appellations to persons
E.despotic machine/imperial rep overwhelms complex
heterogeneity (205)
1.graphism falls back on
voice, becomes writing
a.voice now that of new alliance
b.voice from beyond expressing itself in writing flow as direct fil
2.crushing of the magic
triangle: voice, inscribed flesh, eye
3.subordination now, not
connotation
4.flattening graph onto
voice makes transc object jump out of chain
a.= "mute voice" on which whole chain seems to depend
b.chain becomes linearized
5.historical beginning of
formal operations leading to Oedipus
6.moment where meaning supercedes
use:
7.despotic signifier:
a.allows flow of writing, the first deterritorialized flow
b.signifier is merely the deterritorialized sign;
(1)sign of sign
(2)sign made letter
8.desire is now desire of
despot's desire
F.imperial origin of the signifier: reading of Saussure
(206)
1.horizontal: signifier
as value of coexisting minimal terms
a.decomposition
b.one of chain of elements
2.vertical: elevated to
concept = acoustic image = voice
a.recomposition
b.detached object on which whole chain depends
c.spreads over chain the effects of signification
3.no phonetic code in first
sense, w/o overcoding in second sense
4.no linguistic field w/o
biunivocal relations
G."irreducible exteriority of conquest" (208)
1.leveling work of writing
presupposes two langs (master/slave)
a.arbitrariness of signifier only in contrast to another lang
b.alphabetic writing is for illiterates, the unconsc workers
2.master signifier = transc
stock distributing lack to chain elements
H.incest as operation of overcoding (209)
1.two operations:
a.flattening:
(1)body rep subordinated to word rep;
(2)sister and mother are voice's signifieds
b.elevation
(1)fictitious voice from on high
(2)despot is signifier of the voice
2.reconstituted intensity:
a.was earth, now despot's body
b.aim of despotic signifier
3.incest is now the repressing
representation
4.all organs of subjects
now attached to full body of despot
a.danger of organs escaping overcoding: smile of Cassius
b.myth of dismembered body of despot flushed into latrines of city
5.privatization of organs
is next move [to capitalism and private man]
I.system of terror (law) replaces system of cruelty
(211)
1.barbaric law has two features
(cf. Kafka: "Penal Colony")
a.paranoiac-schizoid (metonymy): governs parts
b.manic-depressive (metaphor): reveals nothing
2.punishment is now vengeance;
"juridical form of infinite debt"
3.passivity is now virtue
of subjects
4.detachment and elevation
of the death instinct
5.law as indifference to
designation
a.(no laws against persons)
b.but this anonymity extends to despot as well
6.this system is latency,
death instinct, reactivity
a.now ressentiment of subject answers to vengeance of despot
b.and now the names change, dynasties die, but system lives on
J.Oedipus not yet ready; this is just one step in
that direction (215)
1.Oedipus depends
on imperial desire, not vice versa
2.preparation
of the 5 paralogisms
a.extrapolation of a detached object (73-74)
b.double-bind of overcoding (79)
c.biunivocalization of chain (101)
d.intro law into desire and desire into law (114)
e.latency and the "afterward" (129)
3.but in barbarism, desire
is invested in State, not yet family
4.so Oedipus is not yet
ready; it must complete its migration
a.from displaced represented (false image): primitive
b.to repressing rep (despotic incest as overcoding): barbaric
c.to representative of desire (what is desired): capitalism
(1)internalized and spiritualized infinite debt
(2)Oedipus the despot replaced by Oedipus the subjects
5.all the formal operations
must take place in decoded social field
a.this allows reverberation in interiority
b.desire turned back on itself: interiority, the bad conscience
VIII.The Urstaat (217-222)
A.not a concrete formation, but the horizon of all
states (217)
1.private property and commodity
production bring about
2.latency of State; its
reformation in modified foundations
a.other forms of State are not pure overcoders
b.but inventors of specific codes for deterritorialized flows
(1)this is putting despotism in service of new classes
(2)integrating wealth and poverty
(3)reconciling commercial and tax money flows
B.primordial despotic State not a historical break
(218)
1.it appears fully armed
in minds of its institutors
2.it cannot be located by
Marx
3.myth of origin express
divergence
a.territorial: intense energy passing into extended social system
b.imperial myth: break btw (divine) origin and (mundane) beginning
4.cannot finally establish
temporal relation of primitive and empire
C.thus the State is an abstraction realized only
as an abstraction (220)
1.it is the function of
overcoding
2.it exists only in the
concrete forms of its disguises
D.State can also make codes for decoded flows of
money, commodities (221)
1.no longer overcoding unity;
produced inside field of decoded flows
2.no longer determines;
now determined
3.it now is a "tendency
to concretization"
E.state as desire; "monstrous paradox" (221)
IX.The Civilized Capitalist Machine (222-240)
A.decoding of flows not sufficient for capitalism
[222-24]
1.because they are compensated
for by new State recodings
a.Rome
b.feudalism
2.conjunction of the decoded
flows is contingent
3.and that these decoded
flows are desired
B.capitalism requires conjunction of deterritorialized
flows (224)
1.simplification:
a.primitive connection
b.despotic disjunction
c.capitalist conjunction (reinvestment; production for production)
2.Marx in Capital
[225]
a.conjunction of heterogenous flows [workers/money]
b.different processes of deterritorializing/decoding
C.conditions for conjunction of decoded flows (age
of cynical piety) 225
1.industrial capital is
key: making capital the social full body
a.here capital directly appropriates production
b.commercial/financial capital only installed in pores of feudalism
2.commodities and money
decode flows through abstraction
a.simple exchange: goods are quanta of abstract labor
b.money: general equivalent: order of quantitas
c.value of money: relation of magnitude between quanta
3.a new type of capital
is the key
a.old merchant/financial capital only in alliance w/ productin
b.new filiative capital: money begets money
D.differential relation as capitalist conjunction
[227]
1.dy/dx = flux of variable
capital (labor) / flux of constant capital
2.the capitalist break:
from s.v. of code to s.v. of flux
3.post-mortem despotism;
despot become anus and vampire
E.problem of the tendency to a falling rate of profit
(228)
1.need to consider entire
capitalist field of immanence
2.why does tendency have
no end, but always reproduces itself?
a.duality of money
(1)payment to workers: consumption
(2)credit to capital: flows of production (axiomatic)
b.banks at nexus of these two flows
c.State as regulator ensures convertibility
3.dissimulation ensures
that dominated desire whole capitalist field
4.so capitalism is industrial
in essence, but mercantile in function
F.dualism of money (230)
1.pure fiction, cosmic swindle
of common unit of measure
2.bcs there is no common
measure of value of enterprises & salaries
3.falling tendency has no
conclusion; it has only an internal limit
4.this limit is constantly
displaced ensuring continuity of capitalism
G.this displacement is the deterritorialization
of capitalism (231)
1.concretely, the move to
the periphery for new markets & labor
a.dependency/integration of 3rd world (vs "development")
b.thus primitive accumulation is always reproducing itself
2.this is the schizo movement
of capitalism at the periphery
H.machinic surplus value (232)
1.[m.s.v. = emergent properties
of technical machines]
a.{Marx thought s.v. came only from exploited labor}
b.{and that technical machines were only coagulated dead labor}
2.machines embody decoded
flows of code {=tech/sci knowledge]
I.diachrony of capitalism: the true axiomatic of
profit (233)
1.true axiomatic = social
machine itself: benefit of capitalist profit
2.adoption of tech innovations
only on basis of profit calculations
a.thus human s.v. remains decisive
b.insofar as overall profitability of firm in market is key
3.= alliance capital (banking
credit) selecting tech innovations
4.solution to problem of
falling tendency:
a. m.s.v. comes to correct diminution of human s.v.
b. m.s.v.+ h.s.v. = s.v.flux
J.absorption of surplus value: role of the State
(234)
1.[s.v. must be absorbed
to reproduce lack and thus force labor]
2.State absorption is added
to, not sliced from, s.v. of firms
3.brings economy closer
to full output w/in limits and widens limits
4.politico-military-economic
complex
a.guarantees extraction of h.s.v. (police/military authority)
b.engenders m.s.v. by mobilizing knowledge capital (R&D)
c.absorbs big part of s.v.
K.State as antiproduction (235)
1.capitalist immanence:
three factors
a.differentials of decoded flows
b.displacement of limits as internal
c.antiproduction w/in production itself
(1)no longer transcendent instance of blocking (imperial State)
(2)but internal regulation
2.State antiproduction
a.absorbs s.v. to reproduce lack
b.doubles flow of capital/knowledge w/ flow of capital/stupidity
3.capitalist co-optation (= wider axiomatic)
4.three segments of capitalist reproduction (=central schizo too)
a.extracts h.s.v. via differential decoded flows (labor/production)
b.extracts m.s.v. via axiomatic of decoded flows (code)
c.aborbs or realizes these two forms of s.v.
L.redefinition of surplus value in light of m.s.v.
(237)
1.s.v.: not difference of
value of labor and value created by labor
2.new definition relies
on three elements:
a.incommensurability of two immanent flows (capital and salaries)
b.disparity of two aspects of money expressing them
c.absence of limit exterior to this relation
3.three factors: disparity
of flows, not theft or deduction
a.immense deterritorialized flow: full body of capital
b.reflux of purchasing power: income of labor
c.afflux of raw profit: conjunctive flow over full body
M.capitalist desire: differential relation of flows(239)
N.what is the revolutionary path? (239)
1.cannot be psychoanalysis,
which is itself an absorption of s.v.
2.accelerate the process:
more decoding, more deterritorialization
X.Capitalist Representation (240-262)
A.for capitalism, writing is an archaism (240-244)
1.in that writing is despotic
a.signifier overcodes the flows
b.as mute voice from above
2.McLuhan shows what a language
of decoded flows would be
a.when two flows meet, one becomes content and the other expression
b.these are in conjunction in a figure
c.these figures are non-signs, "flow-breaks or schizzes"
d.e.g., the computer and flows of electricity
3.difference between linguistics
of signifier and of flow-breaks
a.Saussure
b.Hjelmslev: pure field of algebraic immanence
(1)reciprocal precondition of content and expression
(2)rather than subordination of signified to signifier
c.Lyotard:
(1)critique of the signifier via the "figural"
(2)but he arrests the process by reintroducing lack into desire
B.civilization: decoding and deterritorializing
of flows (244-27]
1.decoding in capitalism
a.privatization of
(1)[social]: property, goods, means of prod,
(2)[desire]: organs of man
b.abstraction
(1)[social]: monetary quantities
(2)[desire]: labor
c.limitless relation of capital and labor
d.scientific form of flows of code
e.floating configurations
2.but capitalist flows and
schizophrenic flows are not identical
3.theory of limits [246]
a.capitalism is relative limit of every society
(1)substitutes axiomatic for code
(2)binds energy of the flows on body of capital
b.schizophrenia is the absolute limit
(1)flows travel in a free state on desocialized BwO
(2)or the exterior limit of capitalism
c.so capitalism only works by displacing schizophrenia
(1)substituting its own immanent relative limits [axiomatizing]
(2)this is a binding of schizo energy into an axiomatic
d.this is a simultaneous decoding/axiomatizing
C.axiomatic is not a code [247-251]
1.codes are indirect, qualitative,
limited
a.they are extraeconomic, appropriating production to a quasicause
b.surplus value is determined as surplus value of code
2.capitalist social axiomatic
is not a code
a.money is an abstract quantity
b.but it is also a becoming-concrete
(1)in the differential relation
(2)i.e., a direct relation of decoded flows
(a)transformation of s.v.c to s.v.f [s.v. of flow]
(b)signs of power are now directly economic
(c)cap directly falls back on prod, w/o intervening code
c.absence of limit:
(1)can always add another axiom to the axiomatic
(2)thus always in a field of immanence
d.does not need to mark bodies or form memories
D.capitalist state and the Urstaat [251-53]
1.social machine of cap:
tech machines w/ men as adjacent
2.cap state: regulates decoded/axiomatized
flows
a.this is the evolution of the Urstaat
b.from being transcendent, it now becomes immanent
3.other states tried to
prevent conjunction of decoded flows
4.cap state is born from
conjunction of decoded flows
a.its job is saturation of the axiomatic
b.and a widening of the limits
E.only one class: the bourgeoisie [253-55]
1.classes are negative of
castes and statuses
2.so bour, as leading struggle
against castes, is the only class
3.disappearance of enjoyment
as an end
4.so the opposition is not
between "classes" [owner/worker]
a.but between servants and saboteurs of the machine
b.that is, between capitalists and schizos
c.or between binding and freeing decoded flows
F.proletarian praxis [255-57]
1.conquest of state apparatus
is problematic
a.state capitalism is always possible after the conquest
b.so the cold war was conflict of two axiomatics
(1)socialist: rigid, terroristic
(2)capitalist: flexible, cynical
2.interest vs desire:
a.class interest is molar, preconscious
b.group desire is molecular, unconscious
3.Reich:
a.desire is not deceived,
b.but one can desire against interests
4.reterritorializing creates
racisms, nationalisms, fascist states
G.double movement of deterritorializing and reterritorializing
[257-61]
1.Marx: pol economy sees
subjective abstract essence, but recodes it
2.double movement:
a.production of its own sake [overcoming limits]
b.but only to reproduce capital [wider immanent limits]
3.two poles of capitalism/delirium:
a.paranoia [reterritorializing]
b.schizophrenia [deterritorializing]
4.corresponding to two ways
of thinking about the state
a.schizo: cap state is genuine break
b.paranoia: there has never been but one state
H.recap: three social machines and their representation
types [261-62]
XI.Oedipus at Last (262-271)
A.economic and human reproduction [262-65]
1.in first two machines,
family and economy overlap
2.but in capitalism, capital
takes onto itself alliance and filiation
a.thus the family is privatized
b.and the entire social field can be applied to the family
3.individual vs private
persons
a.individual persons are social first of all
(1)they are functions derived from abstract quantities
(2)configurations or images produced by break-flows
(a)owner is personified capital
(b)worker is personified labor-power
b.private persons are images of images: simulacra
(1)family: simple tactic around which social field recloses
(2)family now expresses, is image of social
(a)father = capital
(b)mother = earth
(c)child= worker
B.this is the arrival of Oedipus [265-70]
1.application of 1st order
social images to 2nd order family images
2.intimate colonial formation
= form of social sovereignty
3.reign of images: how cap
uses schizzes, diverts flows
4.Oedipus is displaced or
internalized limit catching desire
a.personal, private territoriality
b.displaced represented has now become the representation of desire
5.Oedipus as recapitulation
of the three machines
a.makes ready in territorial machine: empty unoccupied limit
b.takes form in despotic machine: symbolically occupied limit
c.filled and completed in capitalist machine: imaginary Oedipus
(1)Oedipus arrives via decoded flows of capital-money
(2)Oedipus is a recap of the three machines:
(a)myth [primitive]
(b)tragedy [despotic]
(c)dream [capitalist]
6.Lacan reading:
a.despite innovations
b.we still have Oedipus, still have castration as path to desire
7.from infinite debt to
bad conscience via internal detached object
a.D/G's great rant against the "priest's psychology" (268-9)
b.psychoanalysis the last home of the priests
8.psy doesn't invent Oedipus,
but gives it a last territoriality
C.recap: Freud as Adam Smith of psy [270-71]
1.Freud's greatness was
to determine essence of desire as libido
2.but he relegates this
to the family's dirty little secret
3.this is "interiority in
place of a new relationship w/ the outside"
D.task of schizoanalysis: (271)
1.overturn theater of representation
2.into order of desiring
production