A parody of D~leuze and Everybody Wants to be a Fascist Guattari as motorcycle freaks ..• and as Number FELIX GUATTARI One on the Hit-Parade! Publish~d by Actuel, a satirical Leftist ' I have chosen to discuss fascism for several reasons: because it is a real magazine. political problem, and not a purely theoretical consideration, and because I think it is a key theme to use in approaching the question of desire in the social realm. Besides, isn't it a good idea to discuss it freely while we still "Kiss -my light" can? Gilles vient de s'acheter une Klos­ Mime sur une route mouillee? Gilles, comment ..tu re.gi • I'.ug­ A micro-politics of desire is not a proposal for the establishment of a sowski 750 flambante neuve, veri· Parfaitement. l 'investissement libidi­ menation du prix de ressence? bridge between psychoanalysis and Marxism, looking at them as completely table • monstre • qui fera rever bien nal ne porte pas sur Ie regime des les consommations memes ont des des lecteurs avec ses quatre eylln­ syntheses sociales, mais sur Ie passages, des devenlrs et des reve­ formalized theories. This seems to me to be neither desirable nor possible. I dres. ses six syntheses disjonctives degre de developpement des forces nirs. C·est Maurice Blanchot qui a et son d.kodeur ill flux inverses. au energies dont ces syntheses de· su poser Ie probleme dans toute 58 do not think that a system of concepts can function with validity outside of Felix. lui, prefere la Ninietzsche pendent . rigueur, au niveau d'une grosse cylin· 1880. plus souple et plus maniable. dree : comment produire, et penser, its original environment, outside of the collective dispositions of enunciation en fait la replique • surbaissee • de Gilles, queUes sont ill ton 8vil lei des fragments qui aient entre eux which produced it. For example, much of the talk about pleasure is very la tameuse Kafkaha 900, y compris qualltel d'une mota idUle? des rapports de difference en tant la chaine signifiante it roulement it Avant tout, un usage immanent de que telle, qui aient pour rapport e~tre interesting, but in contrast with desire, it is absolutely impossible to transfer bille et la libido visqueuse. Pour la synthese connective de produc­ eux leur propre difference, sans refe­ Salut les Melina I ils expliquent tout tion. J'ajouterai : un a.dipe trian· rence a une totalite originelle meme these two notions, drawn from a certain type of practice and a certain vision sur leur nouvelle folie. gule, une bipolarite polyvoque, des perdue, ni a une totalite resultante flux·schizes et un corps sans merne a venir. of psychoanalysis, to the social field; in no way do they help us grasp the Gill... _tu content de .. nouvelle organes. _1 F8Ii •• qu'est_ qu'un _-'pte 1 functioning of the libido in, for example, a fascist situation. Therefore, it Ouais. Ma KloBso est une machine FeUx. peut-on .lIef jusqu·. dire _ C'est un mecanicien. II s'agit de must be understood that when I speak of desire I am not borrowing this formative. dont les rates memes tu fail I'.mour avec til mota? trouver comment marche une moto, sont fonctionnels. et dont Ie fone­ Sur ma mota, c;a respire, ~ chautfe, avec queUes syntheses, quels flux, notion from orthodox psychoanalysis or from Lacanian theory. I do not tionnement est indiscernable de la c:;a mange, c;a baise. Une machine· quelles chaines, quels devenirs, et formation machine chronogEme organe est branchee sur une ma­ de detruire les structures et les pretend to lay the foundation of a scientific concept; I will simply try to con fondue avec son propre montage. chine source : rune emet un flux representations qui · empechent la operant par liaisons non localisables que rautre coupe. le couplage de .Ia machine de fonctionner: grands amas erect the scaffolding of a provisional theoretical construct in which the et localisations dispersees. faisant synthese connective, objet partlel qui remplissent Ie preconscient, intervenir des processus de tempo­ flux, a done aussi bien une autre immobilisant les motos, les taisant operation of desire within the social realm will be discussed. The starting ralisation, formations en fragments forme 13 disjonction inclusive. taire, les engluant, ·Ies sabotant. les point is simple: it is not possible to bind together in the same sentence the et pieces detacMes. avec plus­ coinc;ant. les clouant. Ce ne sont pea values de code. et ou Ie tout est Gill .... les ........1 .... '-dloent lee Ii_ de _slon de 1'1_ _ tu ne Ie code de term "pleasure" with the term "revolution." You cannot say that a "pleasure lui-m~me produit it cote des p~rties . ""-Ie. _ clent qui comptent. ce .....t .. I. route, contraire .... 1'- de "'lie I of revolution" could exist. But nowadays no one is surprised to hear HlI.... Nlnletzsche ...t4l1e vr81- Le decodage generalise des flux rnent line ...... hNTII'",. 7 dans Ie capitalisme a libere. deterri­ someone speak of a "desire for revolution" or a "revolutionary desire." It Tu partes! II y a partout Ie molaire torialise, decode et meme surcode et Ie mol6culalre : leur dlsjonction les flux du code. au point que la seems to me that this is tied to the fact that the meaning generally given to est un rapport de disjonction incluse, machine les a toujours interiorises pleasure is inseparable from a certain mode of individuation of subjectivity, Qui varie seulement d'apres les deux dans son corps au sa structure sens de la subordination. suivant Que comme champ de forces. Mais la and psychoanalytic pleasure is even less independent from this kind of les phenomenes moleculaires 5e veritable axiomatique n'est pas la. subordonnent aux grands ensembles, inward-folding individuation which, quite to the contrary, managed to fmd ou au contraire se les subordonnent. Certes, FeU.. on dit ......ent _ Roneld ulng est un plus grWId some kind of fulfillment within the confmes of the couch. With libido and cIwnpIon _ toi, Quel ...t ton ••1. 1 desire, however, things are altogether different. l '. anti-conduite • de Laing ne retient de la moto que ses lignes Desire is not intrinSically linked to an individuation of the libido. A de disjonction exclusive, et I'ecrase sur ses dimensions individuelles 9L1.. machine of desire encounters forms of individuation, that is, of alienation. pseudo..individuelles qui Ie rappor­ tent par nature a des groupes assu· Neither desire nor its repression is an ideal formation; there is no desire-in­ jettis, au lieu de taire I'operation inverse et de degager dans la moto itself, no repression-in-itself. The abstract objective of a "successful castra­ I'element sous-jacent d'une inclusion tion" partakes of the worst reactionary mystifications. Desire and repression connective des disjonctions. 2 function in a real society, and are marked by the imprint of each of its IK historical stages. It is therefore not a matter of general categories which could be transposed from one situation to another. The distinction which I propose between micro-politics and macro-politics of desire would have to 87 Guattari Everybody Wants to be a Fascist function as something which would lead to the liquidation of the pretended to recognize the desire and creativity of the masses; the militant Marxist universality of psychoanalytic models, a notion whic~ osten~ibly. secures the system of thought surmounts this failure , but constitutes itself as the psychoanalyst against political and social contingencIes. It IS saId that psy­ collective system of representation of the desire of the masses. This system choanalysis is concerned with something which takes place . ~n ~ small scale, recognizes the existence of a revolutionary desire, but it imposes mediations barely the scale of the family and the person, whereas pohtIcs IS concerned on it: that of the theoretical representation of Marxism, and that of the only with large social groupings. I would ~e to demon~tra~e. tha~, on ~he practical representation of the party which is supposed to be its expression. contrary, there is a politics which addresses Itself to the mdividual ~ de~lTe, A whole mechanism of transmission belts is thus put into place between the as well as to the desire which manifests itself in the broadest SOClal fIeld. theory, the direction of the party, and the militants, so that the innumerable And it has two forms: either a macro-politics aiming at both individual and differences which run through the desire of the masses fmd themselves social problems, or a micro-politics aiming at the same domains (~he ind~vi, "massified," restored to standardized formulations whose necessity is deemed dual, the family, party problems, state problems, etc.). The despoi1sm. which to be justified in the name of the cohesion of the working class and party exists in conjugal or family relationships arises from the same ~? of unity. From the impotence of a system of mental representation we have libidinal disposition that exists in the broadest social field . Inversely, It IS by passed to the impotence of a system of social representativity. In fact , it is no means absurd to approach a certain number of large scale social problems no accident if this neo-Marxist method of thought and action is swamped in (for example, the problems of bureaucratism and fascism), in the light . of a bureaucratic practices; this owing to the fact that it has never really dis­ micro-politics of desire. The problem therefore is not to put up bndg~s engaged its pseudo-dialectic from an obdurate dualism between represen­ between already fully constituted and fully delimited domains, but to put m tation and reality, between the caste who hold the passwords and the place new theoretical and practical machines, capable of sweeping aw~y the masses , who are heard alphabetizing and catechizing like good children.