Status Updates From L'Anti-Œdipe: Capitalisme e...

"Simply stated, the eye extracts from the pain it is contemplating a surplus value of code that compensates the broken relationship between the voice of alliance that the criminal has wronged, and the mark that had not sufficiently penetrated his body. The crime... re-established by the spectacle of the punishment: as primitive justice, territorial representation has foreseen everything." p. 191

"There is an unconscious libidinal investment of the social field that coexists, but does not necessarily coincide, with the preconscious investments.... That is why, when subjects, individuals, or groups act manifestly counter to their class interests... it is not enough to say: they were fooled.... It is a problem of desire, and desire is part of the infrastructure." p. 104