Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus

Questions

1) What is meant by ‘deterritorialization’?

2) In what sense is the text anti-fascist? -  viz. Foucault/preface

3) What is “production”-à how it ‘works’? of what, etc.? – p.148

4) What does ‘decoding’ mean? – p.166 – relationship between ‘overcoding’ and Foucault’s ‘figure'

5) Primitive territorial machine; socius; social machine – p.140

6) “Universal history is a history of contingencies” – How exactly? Aren’t these antithetical to one another? p.140

Discussion

Fascism – desiring our own oppression; desiring being led; love of power (xiii)

Deterritorialization – transformation of a meaning & territory

Territorialization - setting up a territory/ region – building a space & meaning

Capitalism as decoding machine à transforms codes

Universal in negative sense?  – potential of capitalism is universal in all social forms

p.150 – history – dynamic & open social reality 

dysfunctions/ crises of the social/desiring-machine - -- how to get out of this? Can’t just oppose negatively.

Text is not anti-Marxist – p.151 – against certain Marxist readings or tendencies 

Assumed ideal model & actual institutions 

Overcode – surplus value of code – p.150 – in excess/escapes the code 

Coding = territorial machine

Overcoding = despotic machine – chief makes meal – prestige - way of introducing transcendence in social figures – appropriated

Capitalism = decoding

Earth = source of the territorial machine – ground of territorial machine, which is the first form of sociality (socius) – primitive, savage unity of desire & production (140) 

Social machine – has men for its parts; fashions a memory; condition & organize – society - socius of inscription – essential thing is to mark and to be marked – about inscribing (142) 

Megamachine – social machine as a collective entity