"each instant, each second, a cell becomes cancerous, mad, proliferates and loses its configuration, takes over everything; the organism must resubmit it to its rule or restratify it, not only for its own survival but also to make possible an escape from the organism, the fabrication of the "other" BwO on the plane of consistency."
How to make yourself a Body without Organs; D&G

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
F. Nietzsche

"i don't know whether the public does or does not expect the critic to judge works or authors.
judges were there, i think, before he was even able to say what he wanted.
It seems that Courbet had a friend who used to wake up in the night yelling: 'i want to judge, i want to judge.' it's amazing how people like judging.
judgment is being passed everywhere, all the time. Perhaps it's one of the simplest things mankind has been given to do. And you know very well that the last man, when radiation has finally reduced his last enemy to ashes, will sit down behind some rickety table and begin the trial of the individual responsible.
I can't help but dream of a kind of criticism that would try not to judge but to bring an ouvre, a book, a sentence, an idea to life; it would light fires, watch the grass grow, listen to the wind, and catch the sea foam in the breeze and scatter it.
It would multiply not judgments but signs of existence; it would summon them, drag them from their sleep. Perhaps it would invent them sometimes--all the better. All the better.
Criticism that hands down sentences sends me to sleep; I'd like a criticism of scintillating leaps of the imagination. It would not be sovereign or dressed in red. It would bear the lighting of possible storms."
M. Foucault; The Masked Philosopher

"[...]There is an infinity of things to know; the people capable of doing such work exist. So what is our problem? Too little: channels or communication that are too narrow, almost monopolistic, inadequate. We mustn't adopt a protectionist attitude, to stop "bad" information from invading and stifling the "good". Rather, we must increase the possibility for movement backward and forward. This would not lead, as people often fear, to uniformity and leveling-down, but, on the contrary, to the simultaneous existence and differentiation of these various networks.
[...]
Everything isn't going badly[...]
the right to knowledge must not be reserved to a particular age group or to a certain categories of people, but that one must be able to exercise it constantly and in many different ways.
[...]
One of the many functions of teaching was that the training of the individual should be accompanied by his being situated in society.
We should now see teaching in such a way that it allows the individual to change at will, which is possible only on condition that teaching is a possibility always being offered."
M. Foucault; The Masked Philosopher

humans disgust me.

"We started with the idea that one should not consider desire as a subjective superstructure which phases in and out.
Desire never stops shaping history, even in its worst periods. The German masses had come to desire Nazism. [...]
Under certain conditions, the desire of the masses can turn against their own interests. What are those conditions? That's the whole question.
[...]to answer that, we realized that one cannot simply attach a Freudian wagon to the Marxist-Leninist train.
First one must get rid of a stereotyped hierarchy between an opaque economic infrastructure and social and ideological superstructures conceived of in such a way that they repress the question of sex and expression on the side of representation, as far away as possible from production.
The relations of production and the relations of reproduction participate in the same pairing of productive forces and antiproductive structures.
We should move desire on the side of the infrastructure, on the side of production, and the family, the ego and the person on the side of antiproduction. This is the only way to prevent the sexual from remaining permanently cut off from the economic."
F. Guattari; In Flux

"There exists[...] a desiring-production, which, before all actualization in the familial division of sexes and persons as well as the social division of work, invests the various forms of production of jouissance and the existing structures in order to repress them."
F. Guattari; In Flux

F.G.: [...]A militant struggle is necessary against the reductive explanations and adaptive techniques of suggestion based on Oedipal triangulation. Refusing to grasp compulsively a complete object, symbolic of all despotism. Drifting towards real multiplicities. Ceasing to dismiss both man and machine whose relationship, on the contrary, constitutes desire itself. Promoting another logic, a logic of real desire, establishing the primacy of history over structure;
another analysis, extricated from symbolism and interpretation; another militancy, with the means to free itself form fantasies of the dominant order.
G.D.; [...]Now, strangely, if we have tried to go beyond this traditional duality, it's precisely because we were writing together. Neither of us was the madman, neither of us the psychiatrist; there had to be two of us in order to find a process that was not reduced either to the psychiatrist or his madman, or to a madman and his psychiatrist.
The process is what we call a flux. Now, once again, the flux is a notion that we wanted to remain ordinary and undefined.
This could be a flux of words, ideas, shit, money, it could be a financial mechanism or a schizophrenic machine: it goes beyond all dualities.
We dreamed of this book as a flux-book.
G. Deleuze & F. Guattari; In Flux

[...]then there are the younger generations: it's unlikely they'll buy a certain type of discourse, now epistemological, now psychoanalytical, now ideological. it's beginning to tire everyone out.
We say: Oedipus and castration, make the best of them, because it's not going to last. Until now psychoanalysis has been left alone: there have been attacks on psychiatry, the psychiatric hospital, but psychoanalysis seemed untouchable, uncomrpomised.
We are trying to show that psychoanalysis is worse than the hospital, precisely because it operates through all the pores of capitalist society and not in the special places of confinement.
And because it is profoundly reactionary in its practice and theory, not only in its ideology. And because it fulfills specific functions.
Felix says that our books is addressed to people who are not between 7 and 15 years old. because in fact it is still too difficult, too cultivated, and makes too many compromises.
[...]
If a book responds to a desire, it is insofar as there are already a lot of people who can't stand a current type of discourse.[...], a book can only respond to a desire politically, outside the book. For example, an association of angry users of psychoanalysis wouldn't be a bad place to start"
G. Deleuze; In Flux

"[...]The movement by which, not without effort or uncertainty, dreams and illusions, one detaches oneself from what is accepted as true and seeks other rules—that is philosophy."
M. Foucault; The Masked Philosopher

BDSM

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