desiring machine

is focused only on its own production, therefore there is no object of desire and hence no object lacking.

Since desiring machines are focused only on their own production, there is no object of desire and hence no object lacking. 'Lack is created, planned, and organized in and through social production' (AO 28). Lack is not cause but a result' (Hardt notes on AO 6)

is the level of the organism that forms at the expense of the body, a level of abstraction whereby the body can be said to have 'no mouth. No tongue. No teeth. No larynx. No esophagus. No belly. No anus'.

Desiring-machines make us an organism... but at the very heart of this production, within the very production of this production, the body suffers from being organized in this way, from not having some other sort of organization, or no organization at all. 'An incomprehensible, absolutely rigid stasis' in the very midst of process, as a third stage: 'No mouth. No tongue. No teeth. No larynx. No esophagus. No belly. No anus.' (D&G 'anti-oedipus' 8)

desiring machine, n.Definitions

desiring machine