deleuze & philosophy

for nomads, atheists, orphans

[edwordsmyth]

“…those who do not renew the image of thought are not philosophers, but functionaries who, enjoying a ready-made thought, are not even conscious of the problem and are unaware even of the efforts of those they claim to take as their models.”

— Gilles Deleuze&Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy? (via bergmans-ghost)

[guattarian-egirl-deactivated202]

“Every time that the problem of schizophrenia is explained in terms of the ego, all we can do is ‘sample’ a supposed essence or a presumed specific nature of the schizo, regardless of whether we do so with love and pity or disgustedly spit out the mouthful we have tasted. We have 'sampled’ [her] once as a dissociated ego, another time as an ego cut off from the world, and yet again—most temptingly—as an ego that had not ceased to be, who was there in the most specific way, but in [her] very own world.”

— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia” 

[drnandi]

“Everything which happens and everything which appears is correlated with orders of differences: differences of level, temperature, pressure, tension, potential, difference of intensity…Disparity - in other words, difference or intensity (difference of intensity) is the sufficient reason of all phenomena, the condition of that which appears.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition (222)

[drnandi]

“The ‘I think’ is the most general principle of representation - in other words, the source of these elements and of the unity of all these faculties: I conceive, I judge, I imagine, I remember and I perceive - as though these were the four branches of the Cogito. On precisely these branches, difference is crucified.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition (139)

[jamabushi]

the corporation constantly presents the brashest rivalry as a healthy form of emulation, an excellent motivational force that opposes individuals against one another and runs through each, dividing each within

[drnandi]

“Deleuze’s pluralist art does not necessarily deny essence, but it makes it depend in all cases upon the spatio-temporal and material coordinates of a problematic Idea that is purely immanent to experience, and that can only be determined by questions such as Who? How? Where and When? How many? From what viewpoint? and so on. These “minor” questions are those of the accident, the inessential, of multiplicity, of difference – in short, of the event (problematics as opposed to theorematics).”

— Daniel W. Smith, “The concept of the simulacrum: Deleuze and the overturning of Platonism” (22)

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

We recommend the recently translated Aberrant Movements by David Lapoujade. While there is an assumed familiarity with Deleuzian concepts on the reader’s end, Lapoujade does a Deleuzian reading of Deleuze, asking: What is the problem motivating this thinker’s thought? what is the logic peculiar to Deleuze?

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

This account persistently has new followers and we are always surprised by that. (We are very near 3,000.) We want to say that it is great to see so many people interested in Gilles Deleuze’s thought. This account has more or less been an archive of quotes by Deleuze, mentions of Deleuze, or lines of thought relevant to Deleuze. We would like to see this account go more toward the expositional and experimental.

We have not had much time to post due to an uprootedness in the life of our main poster. Once they settle, the blog will move toward that vision.

Thank you for the follows. We hope the joy of Deleuze’s thought affects your body such that your capacity to act is increased to the nth power.

Caute,

[infinite-iterations]

Copy of Anti-Oedipus for Michel Foucault illustrated by Deleuze’s children

(“For Michel, admiration and affection, and for shared causes, intolerably, where I will follow you.”)

[jamabushi]

History has always dismissed the nomads

[antimanifesto1973]

“The truth is that sexuality is everywhere: the way a bureaucrat fondles his records, a judge administers justice, a businessman causes money to circulate; the way the bourgeoisie fucks the proletariat; and so on. And there is no need to resort to metaphors, any more than for the libido to go by way of metamorphoses. Hitler got the fascists sexually aroused. Flags, nations, armies, banks get a lot of people aroused”

— Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

[drnandi]

“This is why virtual objects exist only as fragments of themselves: they are found only as lost; they exist only as recovered. Loss or forgetting here are not determinations which must be overcome; rather, they refer to the objective nature of that which we recover, as lost, at the heart of forgetting.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition (102)

[drnandi]

“Underneath the self which acts are little selves which contemplate and which render possible both the action and the active subject. We speak of our ‘self’ only in virtue of these thousands of little witnesses which contemplate within us: it is always a third party who says 'me’.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition (75)

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

You weren’t born Oedipus, you caused it to grow in yourself; and you aim to get out of it through fantasy, through castration, but this in turn you have caused to grow in Oedipus—namely, in yourself; the horrible circle. Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater. What does schizoanalysis ask? Nothing more than a bit of a relation to the outside, a little real reality. And we claim the right to a radical laxity, a radical incompetence—the right to enter the analyst’s office and say it smells bad there. It reeks of the great death and the little ego.

Deleuze & Guattari, “The First Positive Task of Schizoanalysis,” Anti-Oedipus p. 334

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

Sentience without senses. Blind, deaf, nerveless, moveless. Some irritability, response to touch. Response to sun, to light, to water, and chemicals in the earth around the roots. Nothing comprehensible to an animal mind. Presence without mind. Awareness of being, without object or subject.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Vaster than Empires and More Slow”

[bustakay]

Deleuze on repetition and masochism.

[drnandi]

“Habit is the originary synthesis of time, which constitutes the life of the passing present; Memory is the fundamental synthesis of time which constitutes the being of the past (that which causes the present to pass).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition (80)