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The personal cannot be the impersonal. The impersonal appears as the ‘personal’ without changing in essence.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Aware
As Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari write, “Philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
What is universal is that all love suggests a new experience of truth about what it is to be two and not one.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
Il s’étonnait de la psychologie superficielle qui consiste à concevoir le Moi dans l’homme comme une chose simple, permanente, digne de confiance, et d’une certaine essence. Pour lui, l’homme était un être composé de myriades de vies et de myriades de sensations, une complexe et multiforme créature qui portait en elle d’étranges héritages de doutes
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In these practices and spaces, ordinary life is suspended and another reality takes precedence, a reality that, echoing Deleuze and Guattari's fascination with “becomings,” empowers a transformation from one state of being to another.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Jacques Derrida’s essays, “The Double Session” and “Plato’s Pharmacy.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Il n'a aucun souci de la théorie pure et du théorétique car il veut inventer de nouvelles possibilités d'existence – et les vivre. Le modèle de cette figure correspond donc moins au mathématicien des concepts purs qu'à l'artiste qui invente en créant et crée en inventant.
Michel Onfray • L'ordre libertaire: La vie philosophique d'Albert Camus (French Edition)
And this dialectic breaks down not because its constitutive figures disappear but because they gradually become separated or detached.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and just because this right is denied to many people doesn’t make it any less of a right or any less important.