Anti-Oedipus: BwO What is a desiring machine? For D&G, there is no such thing as desire, only desiring-machines. It's not a thing, but a process. Roland Bogue describes desiring machines by way of an infant feeding a the mother’s breast. Here the “mouth-machine” of the infant and the “breast machine” enter into an circuit (through the flow of milk) (Bogue, 60). The mouth machine is coupled with an esophagus-machine, a stomach-machine, an intestine-machine where nutrients are converted into “energy circuits of collateral desiring-machines” (60). Therefore “each circuit extend[s] into other circuits that spread in ever-widening networks of activity” (61). This example also operates in another way. In using the a textbook example of psychoanalytic infantile desire, Bogue reveals the ways that Deleuze and Guattari stray from Freudian familialism. Here, the mouth-machine can also be “a breathing-machine, spitting-machine, a crying machine” depending on the codes that are ‘stockpiled’ in it (61). Desiring machines are pure production, the mouth-machine does not desire the milk, nor does the esophagus-machine or the stomach-machine. These machines connect to each other to form a network or circuit. The BwO is this circuit, like a trace of energy transer within an ecological system... the BwO are the connections between the mouth-machine, breast-machine, stomach-machine, etc... the grid-like structure the precedes the connections between desiring machines. (more on desiring machines?) I don't care. Let's move on.