remove time from the equation...

Just to recap briefly my understanding of Guattari's and Deleuze's "Anti-oedipus": They seem to be rejecting that capitalist modes of thought train us to believe that we are constantly lacking something. This perpetual lack is then transformed as perpetual desire- more specifically, a desire to consume that desire. As such lack = desire. However, for Guattari and Deleuze, desire isn't a negative force that stems from/is lack; instead, it is an active production- a concrete force that is ubiquitous and omnipresent.

This reduction of seemingly everything into pure production machinery is a new and unique way of thinking of cybernetics and networks that also takes into account a skewed perception of temporality. Our other writers have also been interested in this non-western view of time: with feedback loops and the circular discussions of dichotomies, we have moved on from the linear A-->B mode of perception of time. However, for Guattari and Deleuze, even the circle seems to have collapsed on itself; they write: "Everything is production, since the recording processes are immediately consumed, immediately consummated, and these consumptions directly reproduced."

I wonder what is at stake when temporality between these once-loops is removed from the equation. Like a magician pulling out the tablecloth from underneath a set table, Guattari and Deleuze effortlessly, and a bit carelessly, seem to remove sequence and order from a highly organized and classified system. This reduction has huge implications: it even seems to imply that everything is the same; not that everything is nothing but that everything is everything and nothing is nothing. Distinction and demarcations are now gone: all we have left is desire.