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Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Anti Oedipus Seminar 9
Nov 7, 2022
Explore the concept of the body without organs and its connection to social organization. Discuss schizoanalysis, the social field, the molecular unconscious, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and capitalism. Examine 'partial objects' and their relationship to intensive matter. Learn about adaptations to dark environments and sensory experiences. Explore the blurring of individuality in systems of information. Challenge the anthropomorphic view of sex and introduce the concept of a machinic or molecular unconscious. Discuss the link between private property, the family, and social reproduction. Explore the basics of the capitalist axiomatic. Discuss the countervailing tendency of the human security system and the emergence of a new Earth.
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- The family unit acts as a mechanism of social reproduction under capitalism, confining desire within narrow boundaries that need to be denaturalized.
- Schizophrenia should be seen as a positive process that challenges the limits imposed by capitalism, and embracing the flows of madness can lead to freedom and creative potential.
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The Restriction of Libido in the Family
The podcast episode discusses how the family acts as a restriction on the free flow of libido. Rather than desexualizing the libido, it is through restriction, blockage, and reduction that the libido is confined within the narrow confines of the family unit. This confinement of desire within the family is seen as a form of re-territorialization functioning as a social reproduction mechanism under capitalism. The episode takes a critical stance on the naturalization of the family and calls for denaturalizing it as a contingent form of social reproduction. It suggests that liberating the schizoid movement of de-territorialization and supporting flows of labor, desire, production, knowledge, and creation can challenge the confinement of desire within the family and enable the unleashing of flows of madness beyond the boundaries of mental illness.
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