September 2012
Your identity is changing all of the time, but it’s you who is being changed...
– Elizabeth Grosz (via aelxndr)
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For what is the schizo, if not first of all the one who can no longer bear...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
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In the unconscious it is not the lines of pressure that matter, but on the...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
basedstalin:
i don’t think you guys understand, Mao killed every Chinese person in the world during the Great Leap Forward. He had to go collect the Dragon Balls to wish them back.
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The schizoanalyst is not an interpreter, even less a theater director; he is a...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
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The ascetic ideal is an artifice for the preservation of life…even when he...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On the Genealogy of Morals’
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It is clear that politics does not take place in books but in spaces that are...
– Gregg Lambert, ‘Why the Revolution (of Desire) Did Not Take Place’
The structure of situations does not, in itself, deliver any truths. By...
– Preface. “Being and Event”. Badiou, Alain. (via wittysense)
August 2012
I often dubbed [Lyotard] a modern sophist, and he regarded me as a Stalinist....
– Logic of Worlds - A. Badiou (via circulationwithinmyskull)
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The Libidinal Band/Skin:
“the band, which has, most importantly, neither an inside nor an outside, is most easily comparable to what Freud called the primary processes of the pulsions ‘of’ the psychical apparatus, and would be considered as a sort of analogical presentation of difference independent of the (secondary) orders of re-presentation in which identity, signification and reference are...
i’m thinking about attempting (again) lyotard’s libidinal economy, but the terminology is intimidating, as always.
there’s even a glossary in my edition, but that only sort of helps.
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Psychoanalysis and the Oedipus complex gather up all beliefs, all that has even...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
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For if the woman is defined as a lack in relation to the man, the man in his...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
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The persons to whom our loves are dedicated, including the parental persons,...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
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[D]esire does not take as its object persons or things, but the entire...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
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…What drives your own desiring-machines? What is their functioning? What...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedipus’
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and...
– Lacan (via jacobstime)
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The bumble bee is a part of the reproductive system of the clover. Each one of...
– Samuel Butler, ‘The Book of the Machines’
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From all this we see that fashion furnishes an ideal field for individuals with...
– Georg Simmel, ‘Fashion’
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Seduction is not originally the spontaneous relation between men and women, but...
– Tiqqun, ‘Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl’
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Sexuality does not exist. It is an abstraction, a moment of human relations that...
– Tiqqun, ‘Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl’
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a...
– Jean-Francois Lyotard (via diephilosophie)
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What a perverse operation psychoanalysis is, where this neoidealism, this...
– Deleuze & Guattari, ‘Anti-Oedpius’
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It has been documented that common decency is a shackle that is easily broken if...
– Ulrike Meinhof, ‘From Protest to Resistance’
Yet the city housing projects designed to perpetuate the individual as a...
– Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (via logicallypositive)
When you drink what you want is to get to the last cup. Drink is..literally.....
– Deleuze’s Abecedary: B For Boisson
(via moonpics)
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The “dictatorship of beauty” is also the dictatorship is also the...
– Tiqqun, ‘Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl’
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The Young-Girl is both production and a factor of production, that is, she is...
– Tiqqun, ‘Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl’
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Arson, it can be argued, is not a good idea, since it can put people at risk who...
– Ulrike Meinhof, ‘Setting Fire to Department Stores’
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The initiatives undertaken on behalf of women’s liberation that were...
– Ulrike Meinhof, ‘False Consciousness’
The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake, is an inane...
– Karl Marx, Value, Price and Profit (via rethinksocialism)
revolutionaryhopes:
Quick reminder that America only developed a space program to put further imperialist pressure on the Soviet Union and that America never actually had any vested interest in the scientific discovery to be gained from space travel that was not directly tied to the interests of its ruling class.
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They got the right to vote once no more social change could be wrought by the...
– Ulrike Meinhof, ‘False Consciousness’
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The portrayal of Meinhof oscillated between descriptions of her as a...
– Karin Bauer, ‘In Search of Ulrike Meinhof’
now i am just imagining a bank robbery perpetrated by gustav mahler
THIEVERY OF A THOUSAND