A quite different procedure (the outline of which is found in the philosophy of Leibniz), must be wholly distinguished from contradiction: in this case, it is the inessential which comprehends the essential, and which comprehends it only in the case. Subsuming under “the case” forms an original language of properties and events. We should call vice-diction this quite different procedure to contradiction. It consists in traversing the Idea as a multiplicity. The question is no longer of knowing whether the Idea is one or multiple, or even both at the same time. “Multiplicity”, used substantively, designates a domain where the Idea, of its own accord, is much closer to the accident than to the abstract essence, and can only be determined with the questions who? how? how much? where and when? in what case? – all forms which trace its true spatio-temporal coordinates

there is no "thing", but only interpretations hidden in one another, like masks layered one on the other, or languages that include each other

Here becomes apparent that the social machine is identical with the desiring-machine. The social machine's limit is not attrition, but rather its misfirings; it can operate only by fits and starts, by grinding and breaking down, in spasms of minor explosions. The dysfunctions are an essential element of its very ability to function, which is not the least important aspect of the system of cruelty. The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate. Capitalism has learned this, and has ceased doubting itself, while even socialists have abandoned belief in the possibility of capitalism's natural death by attrition. No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way

The earth is the primitive, savage unity of desire and production. For the earth is not merely the multiple and divided object of labor, it is also the unique, indivisible entity, the full body that falls back on the forces of production and appropriates them for its own as the natural or divine precondition.

To code desire—and the fear, the anguish of decoded flows—is the business of the socius.

"The desert grows... the sign is near." The schizo carries along the decoded flows, makes them traverse the desert of the body without organs, where he installs his desiring-machines and produces a perpetual outflow of acting forces. He has crossed over the limit, the schiz, which maintained the production of desire always at the margins of social production, tangential and always repelled.