Wish Machine : Dialogues of emancipation (2013)
Title: Wish Machine
Author: Francisco Papas
Technique: Part One: Dolce & Gabbana logo, made of pressed marijuana and molded in resin. Part two: $ 500 coin made with coca paste and resin.
Description: The wish machine is a system of producing desires; The social machine is an economic-political system of production. The technical machines are not independent or external to the social machine. Each technique forms an essential part of the social machine. Capitalist technology is essential to the capitalist system of exploitation. They are large machines used for the exploitation of large masses of workers. There is no intrinsic need for a certain technology. Rather, technology evolves with the social machine of which it is a part.
In the desiring machine, Deleuze and Guattari perceive before all flow. They take Lawrence’s idea: sexuality is flow. All desire is flow and cut. Flow of sperm, urine, milk, etc. Freud discovered this flow of desire. Ricardo and Marx discovered the flow of production, the flow of money, the flow of commodities; All this as the essence of the capitalist economy. What characterizes the system is the appropriation of the product by the capital. Luther also discovered religion as a strictly private phenomenon, much in keeping with the new economy of capital.
In addition to cocaine paste as a desiccant of capital, it was introduced in the 1980s by the military dictatorship and support of the CIA, networked with Colombian mafias, data that until today the military and governments have not declassified or assumed, this was done in order to annul the social movements in the populations, nowadays, the base paste generates micro-trafficking by poverty and segregation and its consumption causes high doses of anxiety for which the consumers, committing an enormous variety, of crimes, these crimes are the most frequent the penalty of deprivation of liberty, the currency of five hundred pesos is equivalent to what costs a dose of cocaine paste, also called “quinazo”, in this same process is pressed marijuana, marijuana that has chemical mixtures and other elements to increase the volume and its effects. it all ended up in violence or psychosis, generally these drugs are sold or used to commit crimes more than quenching the hunger it tries to maintain a status of life, buying clothes of fine brands and objects of gold; houses with poverty but with shirts of Armani and Dolce & Gabbana among other brands.