“Imagine going into a basement filled with rotten smells, filth, and seeing there a multitude of tubes, an endless sewer, interwoven outlets, entrances (you can look at this as an endless text, too). And you see yourself there, as a little tube. But that bundling system is very flexible, if you cut a piece out of it, it won’t collapse in the slightest, it will immediately meld together in an optimal way. And no one will actually notice if you rip your tube out of it. It’s a gigantic map, billions of times more powerful than a GPS, which includes not only geography, but also labels of phenomena. It contains culture, disease, ideas. A climate map, a political map, a temperature map, but all on one plane, on one sheet.” The map Roman Mikhailov is talking about here is very similar to what we call ‘the bureaucratic apparatus’. This apparatus is metastable. It is self-actualizing in an attempt to shake and demobilize it. Bureaucracy is the ‘thing itself’ of schizoanalytic desire. The ‘Machine of desire’ concept in schizoanalytic philosophy is based on the same principle as technical production. The unconscious is also instrumental. Deleuze/Guattari writes: “The subconscious does not raise problems of meaning, but only problems of use. The question posed by desire is not ‘What does it mean?’ but ‘How does it work?’ ... the greatest power of language was only discovered when work was understood as a machine producing some effects, adapted for some use.” It happens to be that the mechanism of the methods used by Russian avant-gardist– to set the dominance of the subconscious over conscious, the “other” over the individual– are still as instrumental and rational as an instrumental mind. In other words, a bureaucratic system. Regarding the flux, nowadays с ускорением развития современных технологий прорисовывается образ человека киборга в киберготической утопии. Это все тот же самый прием разтождествления тела и сознания we are still within the European paradigm and still identify cognition with representation. The very division into Apollonian and Dionysian is itself Apollonian. We can always imagine specific points of the “now” of matter, but we can never conceive of this movement itself, the process itself. Filonov brings us closer to the flow philosophy of Deleuze. But we cannot embody this Deleuzean utopia, we cannot become this flow, we cannot imagine it. It is obvious that any dissatisfaction, any attempt tied to action, is taken into account by the “map”. The “map” is absorbent, it does not need to fight the enemy, it absorbs it and builds it into its body.