Context: This is about a part of one of Guattari's notes to Deleuze which the latter underlined:

So, on the one hand: an individuated image-body, and on the other, a detached Urstaatic object, a code operator. On the one hand, archaization, on the other, diagrammization.

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Code work on impotent sign systems becomes specialized. Hence the dualism of the impotence of representation and the forces of nature. Workers are the unconscious collective agents of practical synthesis. I.e. the worker is the total sign (icon + index + symbol) whose substance is indifferent to object or signification. The worker is the power sign of capitalism. *

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* The working class is the class of deterritorialization, the bourgeoisie is the class of overcoding. [Cf the previous texts: "The Bourgeoisie is the Overcoding Class" and "The Workers' Movement..."]