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Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (Chapter 1/4)

Theory & Philosophy

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The Desiring Machine

Desiring machines are binary machines, obeying a binary law or set of rules governing associations. One machine is always coupled with another. So this eat-a-pull analysis that is reducing things to mommy and daddy comes later. At first there was only desiring production. Now they suggest the satisfaction the handyman experiences when he plugs something into an electric socket or diverts a stream of water.

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