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December 18, 2005
Desire produces reality. What does that mean?
Gilles Delueze understands desire as a primary active force rather than a reactive force to an unfillfulled need. Desire is productive in the sense that it produces real connections, investments and intensive states within and between bodies.
That understanding is directed against the Aristotlean, Hegelian and psychoanalytic conception of (unfulfilled) desire internal to the individual subject developing in terms of a well ordered formation. Does this lead to desire as law?
Deleuze and Guattari understand desire as a circuit of libidinal energy, that can be viewed as an assemblage that is akin to a production process as described by Marx. It is a process of connecting, encoding and consumption.
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