Anti-Oedipus: BwO Can't you give us an example? You asked for it. Not me. D&G sythesize these two aspects of the BwO (recording production and miraculous production) as an aspect of capital. Capital is a body without organs of the capitalist (or the capitalist being), and labor is a productive machine. 1. Recording: Capital is thus the unproductive surface on which the production of labor is recorded. “Recording” means that the value of labor/production is determined on capital. 2. For the miraculous aspect they refer to Marx's concept of relative surplus value (RSV). Marx uses RSV to name a strategy of capital to increase profits by increasing the value produced during a given amount of labor time. One rather crude strategy of RSV might be to speed up the assembly line and thus produce more in the same amount of labor time. More often RSV has to do with technological advances that make labor more productive. Therefore, with the development of RSV it seems like capital (not labor) is what produces capital. We have disjunction, then, between the way a commodity appears to have been caused and its real process of production. "Production is not recorded in the same way it is produced" (AO, 12). This disjunction operated by the body without organs is what D&G call the disjunctive synthesis. disjunctive synthesis...