ABSTRACT
Distancing from social constructionism, I discuss Deleuze’s desiring-machines, a conception that makes it possible to go beyond the negative tradition of desire as lack as well as subjectivity as ontologically dependent on o/Otherness. In lieu of constructionism, I posit machinism as an immanent process of desiring production. Such a machinic construal of critique emphasizes equally its diagnostic capacity and creative nature. The traditional (masculine) subject is exposed as a broken machine, a clog that hampers generative (technology of) desire. Machinism affirms the artificial dimension of life, in which subjectivity (theory) and desire (practice) are no longer opposed but immanently co-expressive. This opens up a possibility to create new worlds of experience and modes of existing beyond representation.
