* all texts by Gilles Deleuze
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“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.”
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"Nothing will enter memory, everything was on the lines, between the lines, in the AND that made one and the other imperceptible, without disjunction or conjunction but only a line of flight forever in the process of being drawn, toward a new acceptance, the opposite of renunciation or resignation — a new happiness?"
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"Becoming is involutionary, involution is creative."
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"What anybody would call affect or feeling, a hope for example, a pain, a love, this is not representational. There is an idea of the loved thing, to be sure, there is an idea of something hoped for, but hope as such or love as such represents nothing, strictly nothing.”
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"To have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage."
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“It is no longer a question of imposing a form upon a matter but of elaborating an increasingly rich and consistent material, the better to tap increasingly intense forces."
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“You will not be defined by your form, by your organs, by your organism, by your genus or by your species, tell me the affections of which you are capable and I'll tell you who you are. Of what affects are you capable?”
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“The most beautiful thing is to live on the edges, at the limit of her/his own power of being affected.”
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"The plant contemplates by contracting the elements from which it originates - light, carbon, and the salts - and it fills itself with colors and odors that in each case qualify its variety, its composition: it is sensation in itself. It is as if flowers smell themselves by smelling what composes them, first attempts of vision or of sense of smell, before being perceived or even smelled by an agent with a nervous system and a brain."
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“Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.”
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"Words possess a comprehension which is necessarily finite, since they are objects of a merely nominal definition. We have here a reason why the comprehension of the concept cannot extend to infinity: we define a word by only a finite number of words. Nevertheless, speech and writing, from which words are inseparable, give them an existence; a genus thereby passes into existence as such; and here again extension is made up for in dispersion, in discreteness, under the sign of a repetition which forms the real power of language in speech and writing."
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"I imagined myself as arriving in the back of an author and giving him a child, which would be his and which nevertheless would be monstruous. That it really be his is very important, because the author had to really say everything that I made him say. But it was also necessary that the child be monstruous, because it was necessary to go through all sorts of decenterings, slippage, breakage, burglary, secret emissions that gave me a lot of pleasure”.
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“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
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"In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side — there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return."
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"We know nothing about a body until we know what it can do, in other words, what its affects are, how they can or cannot enter into composition with other affects, with the affects of another body, either to destroy that body or to be destroyed by it, either to exchange actions and passions with it or to join with it in composing a more powerful body."
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“If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.”
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p.s. Hey. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. I forget how Errol Flynn came up. Oh, wait, because Misanthrope initially hallucinated his name when he first saw Errol Morris's. I have heard of that memoir and of its delights. Maybe fate via referentiality is saying, Read it. Maybe I will. Glad you dug CJC's post, of course. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Yeah, strange and worrisome that it's taking so long to release them. Seems like a no brainer. Maybe some face saving is going on? Heavy wishing that it happens asap, obviously. ** œ, That's a really nice phrase: 'disheveled behind the screen', but I'm sorry you are. Yes, I'll have about a two week blog break marked by a sequence of reruns in a week and a half or so. Thanks much about my projects, and best wishes to yours. ** Sypha, 'Atlantis' is pretty great. I've read some but not a lot of Dennis Potter, but I remembering liking what I read a lot. I'm more familiar with the TV/cinema adaptations of his writings. He seems like a very good area of investigation to me. I should do a Potter post, actually. Great luck on hitting your 'Trinity' deadline. A new blog Day from you would super sweet. ** Gary gray, Hi. I guess you have to get into the slowness of reading poetry, or just get used to how differently it operates your eyes. Then, when your attention span is comfortably off the preset grid that fiction locks in, it gets exciting, or for me, I mean. I'll try to do that Mortimer post, yeah, and thanks a lot again for the idea/nudge. For some weird reason, FB let me get way over the friends limit before cutting me off, and it sucks, but I can't bring myself to make one of those self-devised fan pages for myself that would allow unending friendships. People have to 'follow' me, which is so one-sided and weird in terminology. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Super great that you're writing enough to have tripled the word. Nothing better. I'm good. Writing fairly well, but not in triplicate yet. ** Steevee, Hi. Not that CNN International is any kind of godsend at all, but it's a lot better than the domestic version. I'll try the Zola Jesus. I saw her live once after sort liking her recordings and was really not impressed at all, but I know I need to try her again. The combo with Foetus is intriguing. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. ** Katalyze, Hi! Yeah, the bill is amazing, but the stadium context is too gross and anti-experience or something. Kind of hoping KL and/or ES and/or TtC do a secret small gig here that isn't too secret. I think I have the King Krule lined up for listening today. I just put together a gig post of the stuff I've been listening to, some which/whom include the new Portal, Tsembla, Fuck Buttons, Vår, Unicorn Hard-On, ... I'm really curious to hear how you find Iceland. Seriously want to go there. It's on the agenda of my newfound adventuring, but the logistics are still kind of vague and not figured out. That's exciting, K! More love to you still. ** Rewritedept, Sleep is a great antidote for cranky pantsdom. I don't always know when people are joking, or when they're commenting drunk, ha ha, unless their typing skills are notably decayed or something. I'm very sincere and a bit hazy upstairs and the rush of p.s. writing in combo can take their toll. ** Kyler, Hey. Oh, don't ever take my email slowness as meaning anything other than obnoxiously expressing one if great weaknesses. It's kind of a miracle when I actually ever end up writing anyone back ever. I used to be more okay at email, but doing the p.s. every day has kind of disabled my enthusiasm for my other correspondence. I think my full moon night was just another night, and I actually got better sleep than usual, so ... what does it mean? Oh, and, yeah, the DW letter was nice as those things can go, and it's cool he's being supportive and advisory. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff. Great response to CJC. A real please to read. ** Josh Winter, Hi there. A spell? Uh, what kind of spell? I don't think I know the word count of the final version. I guess I could look through the pdfs and stuff that I traded with my editor and check. But, yeah, a spell of what sort? ** Misanthrope, I think it's probably an easy transition from texting to Twitter, so it feels comfortable from the outset. I have a bunch of quite young 'friends' on FB, but I don't know that that indicates any kind of trend or whatever. I'm in a phase of finding a newsfeed packed with people spouting off simplistically about the news of the day really tiresome, so I mostly stay away, but this too shall pass, I'm sure. I mean my weariness will pass not the spouting off. Hopefully the inevitable sounding explosion down there will blow LS unharmed back into your family's arms length. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Thanks so much again! It was a hit! I didn't read that about the AR-G film releases. That's great news, obviously. I wonder which titles, although I could probably guess, but I'll go find out. About time. ** End. I did another scrapbook page for my in-process novel that, as usual, may or may not be of interest or cogent to anyone but me, but, hey, that's showbiz. See you tomorrow.
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“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.”
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"Nothing will enter memory, everything was on the lines, between the lines, in the AND that made one and the other imperceptible, without disjunction or conjunction but only a line of flight forever in the process of being drawn, toward a new acceptance, the opposite of renunciation or resignation — a new happiness?"
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"Becoming is involutionary, involution is creative."
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"What anybody would call affect or feeling, a hope for example, a pain, a love, this is not representational. There is an idea of the loved thing, to be sure, there is an idea of something hoped for, but hope as such or love as such represents nothing, strictly nothing.”
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"To have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage."
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“It is no longer a question of imposing a form upon a matter but of elaborating an increasingly rich and consistent material, the better to tap increasingly intense forces."
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“You will not be defined by your form, by your organs, by your organism, by your genus or by your species, tell me the affections of which you are capable and I'll tell you who you are. Of what affects are you capable?”
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“The most beautiful thing is to live on the edges, at the limit of her/his own power of being affected.”
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"The plant contemplates by contracting the elements from which it originates - light, carbon, and the salts - and it fills itself with colors and odors that in each case qualify its variety, its composition: it is sensation in itself. It is as if flowers smell themselves by smelling what composes them, first attempts of vision or of sense of smell, before being perceived or even smelled by an agent with a nervous system and a brain."
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“Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.”
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"Words possess a comprehension which is necessarily finite, since they are objects of a merely nominal definition. We have here a reason why the comprehension of the concept cannot extend to infinity: we define a word by only a finite number of words. Nevertheless, speech and writing, from which words are inseparable, give them an existence; a genus thereby passes into existence as such; and here again extension is made up for in dispersion, in discreteness, under the sign of a repetition which forms the real power of language in speech and writing."
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"I imagined myself as arriving in the back of an author and giving him a child, which would be his and which nevertheless would be monstruous. That it really be his is very important, because the author had to really say everything that I made him say. But it was also necessary that the child be monstruous, because it was necessary to go through all sorts of decenterings, slippage, breakage, burglary, secret emissions that gave me a lot of pleasure”.
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“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
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"In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side — there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return."
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"We know nothing about a body until we know what it can do, in other words, what its affects are, how they can or cannot enter into composition with other affects, with the affects of another body, either to destroy that body or to be destroyed by it, either to exchange actions and passions with it or to join with it in composing a more powerful body."
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“If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.”
*
p.s. Hey. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. I forget how Errol Flynn came up. Oh, wait, because Misanthrope initially hallucinated his name when he first saw Errol Morris's. I have heard of that memoir and of its delights. Maybe fate via referentiality is saying, Read it. Maybe I will. Glad you dug CJC's post, of course. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Yeah, strange and worrisome that it's taking so long to release them. Seems like a no brainer. Maybe some face saving is going on? Heavy wishing that it happens asap, obviously. ** œ, That's a really nice phrase: 'disheveled behind the screen', but I'm sorry you are. Yes, I'll have about a two week blog break marked by a sequence of reruns in a week and a half or so. Thanks much about my projects, and best wishes to yours. ** Sypha, 'Atlantis' is pretty great. I've read some but not a lot of Dennis Potter, but I remembering liking what I read a lot. I'm more familiar with the TV/cinema adaptations of his writings. He seems like a very good area of investigation to me. I should do a Potter post, actually. Great luck on hitting your 'Trinity' deadline. A new blog Day from you would super sweet. ** Gary gray, Hi. I guess you have to get into the slowness of reading poetry, or just get used to how differently it operates your eyes. Then, when your attention span is comfortably off the preset grid that fiction locks in, it gets exciting, or for me, I mean. I'll try to do that Mortimer post, yeah, and thanks a lot again for the idea/nudge. For some weird reason, FB let me get way over the friends limit before cutting me off, and it sucks, but I can't bring myself to make one of those self-devised fan pages for myself that would allow unending friendships. People have to 'follow' me, which is so one-sided and weird in terminology. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Super great that you're writing enough to have tripled the word. Nothing better. I'm good. Writing fairly well, but not in triplicate yet. ** Steevee, Hi. Not that CNN International is any kind of godsend at all, but it's a lot better than the domestic version. I'll try the Zola Jesus. I saw her live once after sort liking her recordings and was really not impressed at all, but I know I need to try her again. The combo with Foetus is intriguing. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. ** Katalyze, Hi! Yeah, the bill is amazing, but the stadium context is too gross and anti-experience or something. Kind of hoping KL and/or ES and/or TtC do a secret small gig here that isn't too secret. I think I have the King Krule lined up for listening today. I just put together a gig post of the stuff I've been listening to, some which/whom include the new Portal, Tsembla, Fuck Buttons, Vår, Unicorn Hard-On, ... I'm really curious to hear how you find Iceland. Seriously want to go there. It's on the agenda of my newfound adventuring, but the logistics are still kind of vague and not figured out. That's exciting, K! More love to you still. ** Rewritedept, Sleep is a great antidote for cranky pantsdom. I don't always know when people are joking, or when they're commenting drunk, ha ha, unless their typing skills are notably decayed or something. I'm very sincere and a bit hazy upstairs and the rush of p.s. writing in combo can take their toll. ** Kyler, Hey. Oh, don't ever take my email slowness as meaning anything other than obnoxiously expressing one if great weaknesses. It's kind of a miracle when I actually ever end up writing anyone back ever. I used to be more okay at email, but doing the p.s. every day has kind of disabled my enthusiasm for my other correspondence. I think my full moon night was just another night, and I actually got better sleep than usual, so ... what does it mean? Oh, and, yeah, the DW letter was nice as those things can go, and it's cool he's being supportive and advisory. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff. Great response to CJC. A real please to read. ** Josh Winter, Hi there. A spell? Uh, what kind of spell? I don't think I know the word count of the final version. I guess I could look through the pdfs and stuff that I traded with my editor and check. But, yeah, a spell of what sort? ** Misanthrope, I think it's probably an easy transition from texting to Twitter, so it feels comfortable from the outset. I have a bunch of quite young 'friends' on FB, but I don't know that that indicates any kind of trend or whatever. I'm in a phase of finding a newsfeed packed with people spouting off simplistically about the news of the day really tiresome, so I mostly stay away, but this too shall pass, I'm sure. I mean my weariness will pass not the spouting off. Hopefully the inevitable sounding explosion down there will blow LS unharmed back into your family's arms length. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Thanks so much again! It was a hit! I didn't read that about the AR-G film releases. That's great news, obviously. I wonder which titles, although I could probably guess, but I'll go find out. About time. ** End. I did another scrapbook page for my in-process novel that, as usual, may or may not be of interest or cogent to anyone but me, but, hey, that's showbiz. See you tomorrow.