Affirming Desire

Navigating between Adorno-resque misanthropy and Deleuzian affirming concept creation is a tightrope. Let’s give the latter a chance.

“There are two basic forms of desiring-production: schizophrenia, the free form of desire promoted half-heartedly by capitalism and wholeheartedly by schizoanalysis. And paranoia, the fixed form of desire subjected to socially-authorized belief (in God, the father, the boss, the teacher, the leader).

There are various modes of social-production, each of which represses desiring-production. Capitalism is the most promising, because it is at least ambivalent. It actively fosters both forms of desiring-productions. Capitalism frees desiring-production from capture and repression by codes and representation.” (from Eugene Holland in The Deleuze Dictionary)

Of the two: schizophrenia or paranoia, which is the most life-affirming?

We may not like it. We may even want a different human species. But we are stuck with what we have.

Let’s not descend into the dungeon. Let’s find a way out. And let's be aware that •" interpretation " belongs to the suppressive mental habits of ontological thinking that we should try to escape in order to dream up various unexpected ways of living.