There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
GILLES DELEUZEImages exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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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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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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?
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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According 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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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