The Desiring Machine

Every object presupposes the continuity of a flow. We cannot, we must not attempt to describe the schizophrenic object without relating it to the process of production. Producing is always something grafted onto the product, and for that reason, desiring production is production of production. Henry Michaud describes a schizophrenic table in terms of the process ofProduction which is out of desire. The striking thing was that it was neither simple nor really complex, initially or intentionally complex, or constructed according to a complicated plan. Instead, it had been de-simplified in the course of its carpendering. As it stood, it was a table of additions, much like certain schizophrenic drawings