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The machines. Flows, fluxes, counterflows. This section was remarkably legible, excepting the final few paragraphs which build upon the logos behind the connectivity between all the French phrases that have been deployed thus far. Still, I'm moved by Deleuze's conceptualization of "machines" as flows and breaks in flows (milk from breast to mouth); the flux is a part of the flow, not contrary to it.
— Sep 08, 2026 03:25PM
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Zachary Jones
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"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
— Sep 15, 2026 07:27PM
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"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
— Sep 12, 2026 09:37AM
Zachary Jones
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Ending annotations here. The further I progress, the more and less I understand, but I sense that I'm annotating for the sake of checkpointing rather than analyzing, interpreting, or any somesuch mode of organizing my thoughts on the material. It's too captivating, and I'm too much of a novice to keep stalling through Deleuze and Guattari's examinations and arguments. Following updates are retained for pithy asides.
— Sep 11, 2026 03:17PM
Zachary Jones
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Three texts of Freud. "We are all perverts!" Finally internalizing Foucault's interpretation of this text as a guide toward a "non-fascist life"; Deleuze and Guattari challenge Freud (and the field of psychoanalysis) by interrogating the fascistic nature of oedipalization in Freud's own observations. Oedipus flattens, reduces the irreducible. It is a cure (false consciousness?) in need of a cure: schizophrenization.
— Sep 10, 2026 02:14PM

