Anti-Oedipus: BwO But how can something be full, when it is emptied out? "The mad state is, as he emphasizes over and over again, empty. Teeming with emptiness. Knotted with emptiness. Immodest in its emptiness. You can pull emptiness out of it by the handful. "I am not here. I am not here and never will be." You can pull it out endlessly. " –Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours Carson suggests that emptiness can have qualities or characteristics (knotted, immodest....etc.) like any other material, while remaining immaterial. D&G’s BwO operates similarly. The empty is full , buzzing with vibrant connection and deterritorialization. This emptiness is a function of resistance. “In order to resist organ-machines [or rather, the stratifying effects of organs], the body without organs presents its smooth, slippery, opaque, taut surface as a barrier. In order to resist linked, connected, and interrupted flows, it sets up a counterflow of amorphous, undifferentiated fluid. In order to resist using words composed of articulated phonetic units, it utters only gasps and cries that are sheer unarticulated blocks of sound.” (p9) This stuff's getting kinda freaky, isn't it? Just wait. It gets even better...