There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZEAccording to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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