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Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas
aeon.coAlso retrospectively, it can be noted that Deleuze did not address the intensifying overlap between control society and consumer society’s proliferating manufacture of individual needs, far beyond the products and commodities that were obligatory even in the 1970s.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Experiment, don’t signify and interpret! Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Adam Phillips • On Wanting to Change
Practice is a set of relays from one theoretical point to another, and theory is a relay from one practice to another.
Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
Identity is not a set of fixed attributes, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning...identity is always a never-completed process of becoming — a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being.