falsely attributed...

It's quite interesting that the quote

"Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism
itself. [...]"

at http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=8858&ttype=2
*appears* to be a quote from Guattari, but it actually isn't. In fact, unless
it has been re-translated, the quote itself appears to be mis-quoted. In
my copy of the book it goes like this:

"Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism
itself. The stock market is certainly rational; one can understand it,
study it, the capitalists know how to use it, and yet it is completely
delirious, it's mad. It is in this sense that we say: the rational is
always the rationality of an irrational. Something that hasn't been
adequately discussed about Marx's Capital is the extent to which
he is fascinated by capitalist mechanisms, precisely because the
system is demented, yet works very well at the same time. So
what is rational in a society? It is -- the interests being defined in the
framework of this society -- the way people pursue those interests,
their realization. But down below, there are desires, investments
of desire that cannot be confused with the investments of interest,
and on which interests depend in their determination and
distribution: an enormous flux, all kinds of libidinal-unconscious
flows that make up the delirium of this society. The true history
is the history of desire." -- Gilles Deleuze, in interview with Felix
Guattari (presumably the interview was conducted by
one of Michel-Antoine Burnier, Patrick Rambaud, Jean-François Bizot, Graine Philippe,  Anne Berger and/or Michel Moret, but I'm not sure who) in "Chaosophy", p. 36, originally in  "C'Est Demain La Veille".

There is another translation of the entire interview here:
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze7.htm
Anyway, I "irrationally" attributed the quote to Guattari in a preprint,
I hope they will let me fix it later...