January 2011
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“As Braudel shows, capitalism started out from city towns, but these pushed...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, WiP: 98
Jean-François Lyotard on Gilles Deleuze's Death
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“He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It’s your sadness, idiot, he’d say.”
“In Abstraction and Empathy and Form in Gothic, Worringer theorised the “Gothic...”
– Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction. Mark Fisher (via ajnabee)
“What has this to do with Spinoza? He seems, on the face of it, to have no style...”
– Gilles Deleuze. Letter to Reda Bensmaia, On Spinoza. (via ajnabee)
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“Assemblages [agencements] are passional, they are compositions of desire. Desire...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
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Kickstarter - Smarthistory — Art. History. Conversation.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others? External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness, since I am myself image, that is, movement? And can I even, at this level, speak of ‘ego’, of eye, of brain and a body? Only for simple convenience; for nothing can...
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Gilles Deleuze a Vincennes. 1987. Cours sur l’Harmonie.
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“The philosopher is no longer the being of the caves, nor Plato’s soul or bird,...”
– Gilles Deleuze
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“The will to power (the virtual, active forces) manifests itself in capacities to...”
– Multiplicity is the affirmation of unity: On Gilles Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy, Part One. Media Assemblages
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Possible and Virtual in What is Philosophy?
Could it be that one fixes or arranges amongst the actualized milieu components (agencements), in this manner embodying one or more of the multiplicity of worlds belonging to the possibility space to which the virtuals that are actualized correspond?
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“If philosophy is truly different from art yet capable of sharing with it the...”
– Matter, Manner and Idea in Michelangelo and Deleuze by Sjoerd van Tuinen
“What Deleuze appreciates in Michelangelo’s anti-naturalism is the rupture it...”
– Matter, Manner and Idea in Michelangelo and Deleuze. Sjoerd van Tuinen (via ajnabee)
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“In my hours of gloom, when I am suddenly aware of my own futility … what...”
– Messiaen
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Fascism and Totalitarianism according to Deleuze...
This brings us back to the paradox of fascism, and the way in which fascism differs from totalitarianism. For totalitarianism is a State affair: it essentially concerns the relation between the State as a localized assemblage and the abstract machine of overcoding it effectuates. Even in the case of a military dictatorship, it is a State army, not a war machine, that takes power and elevates the...
Resisting Homogenization
Just as Deleuze argued that individuals come to be constituted (assembled) such that they desire their own repression – i.e., desire the fascist within them, the fascist that prevents the wayward becomings, the lines of flight – so too a transformation of capitalism entails first a transformation of the molecular segments. We must cease desiring our own normalization, our homogenization.
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“But the immanent ontology of multiplicities in A Thousand Plateaus also comes...”
– Expression, Immanence & Constructivism: “Spinozism and Gilles Deleuze.” Thomas Nail (via ajnabee)
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“In times of illegality, an agent comes into the house of a man ‘who has learned...”
– Franz Kafka, Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner. (via ajnabee)
To bring into existence and not to judge
Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If it is so disgusting to judge, it is not because everything is of equal value, but on the contrary because what has value can be made or distinguished only by defying judgment. What expert judgment, in art, could ever bear on the work to come? It is not a question of judging other existing beings, but of sensing whether...
“When we stand in the dark and look at a star a hundred light years away, not...”
– John G Cramer
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