Art and Desiring-Machines

I was intrigued by Deleuze and Guattari’s discussion of artists in “The Desiring-Machines.” Desiring-machines work through the process of breaking down and art takes up this necessity for dysfunction for the purpose of creating group fantasies. Thus, art works out the broken down quality in a way that pleases or evokes pleasure from a group of viewers. Literally converting the dysfunction into the realm of desiring-machines. Desire within art, as a real productive force, is then a machine of antiproduction.

“Revolutionaries, artists, and seers are content to be objective, merely objective: they know that desire clasps life in its powerfully productive embrace, and reproduces it in a way that is all the more intense because it has few needs.” (27)

Desire is an “abject fear of lacking something” (27), but that need comes from the objective being, man, who then desires to produce in the real. Artists take the fact that man, as organized in relation to the masses, deprives him or her of its objective being. Thus, art is the process of producing the objective. This simple process has intense repercussions and explosive qualities because it is something deprived to man. How can the artist use this practice of production politically? Does art provoke pleasure in a group of viewers or are Deleuze and Guattari speaking about a specific bourgeoisie group? Is there a difference between revolutionaries, artist, and seers or can their practices all be seen in the same light?