Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "The Desiring Machines”

"The people that really have it the worst are the people that get kicked out of the system, in a sense they get up to that wall, they can't get past it nor can they go back and they're just there[...]". What an incredibly profound summary, this has opened my mind.

Thanks so much for this lecture! I'm a grad student in political theory doing an independent study on Lacan and Deleuze and have been slowly struggling through Anti-Oedipus. This is an immense help!

I loved this lecture, I'm reading Anti-Oedipus myself right now and this was really helpful in making sense of the bigger picture, the beginning of the text is tough going!

Love the lecture, need more context on the hair

Your wonderful voice and face exude peace and wisdom, and you smartly addressed a very difficult work. You cover with "they say," and "according to them," but I see through your cover. You truly understand what they were trying to say -- what their imaginary symbols (words on paper) point to... Lucky students, and thanks for the youtube upload. I'm quoting this book in my writing, and it's very useful to have such a well thought-out and researched reference

I observed my friend from childhood enter schizophrenia at the ages of 19 to 21. This friend of mine has a profound case of schizophrenia, to the point where he would undress himself in public. But when I look back, those particular schizophrenic episodes did not seem to negatively affect his ability to achieve self preservation. He was completely unaware of another person's reaction to his actions. As an artist now at the age of 33, I am almost envious of his ability to shut out the reactions and critiques of all the humans that enter his social sphere. He does not care what he does or says, and he has never done anything violent to anybody—a trait that also demonstrates an innate machine of checks and balances residing in his unique mental process. It makes sense that schizophrenia attaches itself to conversations relating to post-modern expression etc.

This lecture has helped me understand some very slippery concepts. I will look for more from Bell!

Thank you so much for this engrossing informative lecture. I love your style, didn’t lose attention even once.

Thank you so much. This was truly brilliant.

thank you for uploading this, very clear lecture and easy to understand for someone who is interested in but doesn’t study theory academically. the hair rules, for the record.

Thanks for your generosity in sharing this informative lecture

wow, thank you so much, im someone who is an engineer, and never got exposed to the humanities as i contribute to optimizing these desiring machines (as I have just realized) , thank you so so much for putting this out there.

47:55 perhaps my favorite moment of the lecture.

Excellent thank you!!

good grounding and good lecture, thank you

Nice lecture. Thanks

Ok! Great lecture!!! I've been reading Anti-Oedipus along with other material, including Baudrillard, and imo D&G are by far the hardest read. I feel that quality material on the subject, such as this lecture, and a lecture I'm taking on posthumanism at my University go a long way to "guide" through their work!

awesome lecture

Passionate, interesting and helpful (!!) lecture. Thank you Prof. Bell.