Desire’s decodification and reterritorialization between Marx and Deleuze & Guattari’s “Anti-Oedipus”

Abstract

This text will pose the question about the way in which Marx introduces desire in the study of production according to Deleuze and Guattari. Starting from the second footnote of Capital and its implications between desire and necessity, we will undertake a rereading of the first chapter of this work to account for the forms of recognition (as desire of the desire of the other) that is established in capitalist production. Later, in the second part, we will move to the third chapter of The Anti-Oedipus. The objective will be to show the different relationships between recognition and production that we can find in the three forms of socius that Deleuze and Guattari establish there. With this we will try to expand the conclusions of the first part of our exposition in order to lead the problem towards the ways in which desire itself (and with it, recognition) is produced in the capitalist socius to see the relationship that it maintains with what was stated in the first section.