CONTENTS

Translator’s introduction

PART ONE SEMIOTIC SUBJECTION AND COLLECTIVE EQUIPMENT

1     The unconscious is not structured like a language

The machines of the unconscious

The dictatorship of the signifier

A non-reductive analytic pragmatics

2     Where Collective equipment starts and ends

General function of Collective equipment

The myth of human nature

3     The capitalist revolution

After the ‘black hole’ of the thirteenth century, the ‘Peace of God’: a religious machine

The mystique of chivalry and free enterprise

Bourgeoisie and feudalism

4     Bourgeoisie and capitalist flows

The bourgeois machine

The new bourgeois ‘sensibility’

The withering of the aristocracy

Bourgeois reterritorialisations

5     Semiotic optional matter

Semiotisation of libidinal investments

Rhizomatic semiotic research

Example of rhizomatic research: the semiotic factory of childhood

6     Equipment of power and political facades

The institutional simulacra of instituted politics

The mega-network of miniaturised equipment

The facialities of power

Molar powers and molecular potentials

‘Collective analytic’ interventions and the social unconscious

7     A molecular revolution

The third industrial revolution

Abstract machines

Bureaucratic socialism, the highest stage of capitalism

A new type of struggle

An analytico-militant labour at all scales

8     The rhizome of collective assemblages

The collective assemblages of desire

A rhizomatic cartography

The macro-assemblage of audiovisual means

9     Micro-fascism

Micro-struggles

The politics of fascist and Stalinist equipment

The micro-fascisms of capitalist societies

Liberatory options, micro-fascist options at the molecular level

10   Self-management and the politics of desire

Methodologies of rupture

Singularities of desire

The traps of ideology

Prospects for self-management

Social transversalities

PART TWO PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUS

11   Introduction to principal themes

12   Pragmatics, the runt of linguistics

Semiotically formed matters

The order of things and the order of signs

Abstract machine or signifying abstraction

The assemblage of content and expression doesn’t come out of the blue

Four kinds of expression-content assemblage

Semiotic enslavement

Competence as instrument of power

Do ‘pragmatic universals’ exist?

13   Pragmatics: a micropolitics of linguistic formations

Stratification, stages, and abstract machines

A micropolitics of desire

There is no language in-itself

The unconscious as individual or collective assemblage

Tracings and trees, maps and rhizomes

Generations and transformations

An analytico-militant pragmatics

PART THREE EXAMPLE OF A PRAGMATIC COMPONENT: FACIALITY TRAITS

14   On faciality

15   The hierarchy of behaviour in man and animal

16   The semiotics of the grass stem

First series

Second series: the Australian finch

The traits of matters of expression

17   The little phrase in Vinteuil’s sonata

Notes

Index