#desiring-machine

[feelingpolitical]

The third type of interruption or break characteristic of the desiring-machine is the residual break or residuum, which produces a subject alongside the machine, functioning as a part adjacent to the machine. And if this subject has no specific or personal identity, if it traverses the body without organs without destroying its indifference, it is because it is not only a part that is peripheral to the machine, but also a part that is itself divided into parts that correspond to the detachments from the chain and the removals from the flow brought about the machine. Thus this subject consumes and consummates each of the states through which it passes, and is born of them each anew, continuously emerging from them as a part made up of parts, each one of which completely fills up the body without organs in the space of an instance.

Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, “1. The Desiring-Machines”, 40-1

[feelingpolitical]

[The celibate-machine forms a] new alliance between the desiring-machines and the body without organs so as to give birth a new humanity or a glorious organism. This is tantamount to saying that the subject is produced as a mere residuum alongside the desiring-machines, or that the confuses himself with this third productive machine and with the residual reconciliation that it brings about: a conjunctive synthesis of consummation in the form of a wonderstruck ‘So that’s what it was!'

Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, “1. The Desiring-Machines”, 17-8

[feelingpolitical]

...desiring-production – or better, its repression in social production – is responsible for the construction of bodies politic: as we will see, social machines produce interlocking social and somatic systems by regulating material flows as they pass in and out of civic and somatic bodies politics, as well as patterning the affective cognition habits of subjects

Protevi, Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic, 91

[gegensmith]

Boy with Machine (1954), Richard Linder

"the turgid little boy has already plugged a desiring-machine into a social machine, short-circuiting the parents"

Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (392)

[agrubstreethack-blog]

Artistry

"The artist is the master of objects; he puts before us shattered, burned, broken-down objects, converting them to the regime of desiring-machines, breaking down is part of the very functioning of desiring machines; the artist presents paranoiac machines, miraculating-machines, and celibate machines as so many technical machines, so as to cause desiring-machines to undermine technical machines.  Even more important, the work of art is itself a desiring-machine.  The artist stores up his treasures so as to create an immediate explosion, and that is why, to his way of thinking, destructions can never take place as rapidly as they ought to."

                               - Anti-Oedipus pg 32