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[Hjelmslev] used the term matter for the plane of consistency or Body without Organs, in other words, the unformed, unorganized, nonstratified, or destratified body and all its flows: subatomic and submolecular particles, pure intensities, prevital and prephysical free singularities. [TP: 43]
It is not at all a notion or a concept but a practice, a set of practices. [TP: 149-150]
You never reach the Body without Organs, you can't reach it, you are forever attaining it, it is a limit. [TP: 150]
The BwO is what remains when you take everything away. What you take away is precisely the phantasy, and signifiances and subjectifications as a whole. Psychoanalysis does the opposite: it translates everything into phantasies, it converts everything into phantasy, it retains the phantasy. It royally botches the real, because it botches the BwO. [TP: 151]
At capitalism's limit the deterritorialized socius gives way to the body without organs, and the decoded flows throw themselves into desiring-production. [AO: 140]
For each type of BwO, we must ask: (1) What type is it, how is it fabricated, by what procedures and means (predetermining what will come to pass)? (2) What are its modes, what comes to pass, and with what variants and what surprises, what is unexpected and what expected? [TP: 152]
[T]he BwO is not a scene, a place, or even a support upon which something comes to pass. It has nothing to do with phantasy, there is nothing to interpret. [TP: 153]
The BwO causes intensities to pass; it produces and distributes them in a spatium that is itself intensive, lacking extension. It is not space, nor is it in space; it is matter that occupies space to a given degree--to the degree corresponding to the intensities produced. [TP: 153]
It is nonstratified, unformed, intense matter, the matrix of intensity, intensity = 0; but there is nothing negative about that zero, there are no negative or opposite intensities. Matter equals energy. Production of the real as an intensive magnitude starting at zero. [TP: 153]
[W]e treat the BwO as the full egg before the extension of the organism and the organization of the organs, before the formation of the strata; as the intense egg defined by axes and vectors, gradients and thresholds, by movements involving group displacement, by migrations: all independent of accessory forms because the organs appear and function here only as pure intensities. [TP 153]
The BwO is the field of immanence of desire, the plane of consistency specific to desire (with desire defined was a process of production without reference to any exterior agency, whether it be a lack that hollows it out or a pleasure that fills it). [TP 154]
[T]he masochist uses suffering as a way of constituting a body without organs and bringing forth a plane of consistency of desire. That there are other ways, other procedures than masochism, and certainly better ones, is beside the point; it is enough that some find this procedure suitable for them. [TP: 155]
The plane of consistency would be the totality of all BwO's, a pure multiplicity of immanence [TP: 157]
Note: as value operates as an exterior measure imposed upon labour in Marx's Capital and Grundrisse?