A ‘desiring machine’ opposes the notion of unity or oneness: the elements or discontinuities that compose it do not belong to either an original totality that has been lost or one which finalizes or completes it, a telos … Desire does not create permanent multiplicities; it experiments, producing ever-new alignments, linkages, and connections, making things. It is fundamentally nomadic not teleological, meandering, creative, nonrepetitive, proliferative, unpredictable.
Elizabeth Grosz (1994). Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; p. 168. (via acadaimon)