[[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] new specialization Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 104 >Two conjoined tendencies in so-called minor languages have often been noted: an impoverishment, a shedding of syntactical and lexical forms; but simultaneously a strange proliferation of shifting effects, a taste for overload and paraphrase. This applies to the German of Prague, Black English, and Quebecois. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] linear vs circular Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 122 >The paranoid Pharaoh and the passional Hebrew? In the case of the Jewish people, a group of signs detaches from the Egyptian imperial network of which it was a part and sets off down a line of flight into the desert, pitting the most authoritarian of subjectivities against despotic signifiance, the most passional and least interpretive of delusions against interpretational paranoid delusion, in short, a linear "proceeding and grievance" against the irradiating circular network. Your grievance, your proceeding: that is Moses' word to his people, and the proceedings come one after the other along a line of Passion. From this Kafka derives his own conception of querulousness or the proceeding, and the succession of linear segments:the father-proceeding, hotel-proceeding, ship-proceeding, court-proceeding. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] two groups Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 335 >The distinction is between two group movements, as in Alembert's equation, in which one group tends toward increasingly equilibrated, homogeneous, and probable states (the divergent wave and the delayed potential), and the other group tends toward less probable states of concentration (the convergent wave and the anticipated potential). Third, the intramolecular internal forces that give an aggregate its molar form can be of two types: they are either covalent, arborescent, mechanical, linear, localizable relations subject to chemical conditions of action and reaction or to linked reactions, or they are indirect, noncovalent, machinic and nonmechanical, superlinear, non localizable bonds operating by stereospecific discernment or discrimination, rather than by linkage. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] hold by the edge Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 336 >What holds all the components together are transversals, and the transversal itself is only a component that has taken upon itself the specialized vector of deterritorialization. In effect, what holds an assemblage together is not the play of framing forms or linear causalities but, actually or potentially, its most deterritorialized component, a cutting edge of deterritorialization. An example is the refrain: it is more deterritorialized than the grass stem, but this does not preclude its being "determined," in other words, connected to biochemical and molecular components. The assemblage holds by its most deterritorialized component, but deterritorialized is not the same as indeterminate (the refrain may be narrowly connected to the presence of male hormones). [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] war once saturation Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 417 >But more generally, we have seen that the war machine was the invention of the nomad, because it is in its essence the constitutive element of smooth space, the occupation of this space, displacement within this space, and the corresponding composition of people: this is its sole and veritable positive object (nomos). Make the desert, the steppe, grow; do not depopulate it, quite the contrary. If war necessarily results, it is because the war machine collides with States and cities, as forces (of striation) opposing its positive object: from then on, the war machine has as its enemy the State, the city, the state and urban phenomenon, and adopts as its objective their annihilation. It is at this point that the war machine becomes war: annihilate the forces of the State, destroy the State-form. The Attila, or Genghis Khan, adventure clearly illustrates this progression from the positive object to the negative object. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] exemplary integration of war machine; retained smooth space Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 418 >This question of appropriation is so varied historically that it is necessary to distinguish between several kinds of problems. The first concerns the possibility of the operation: it is precisely because war is only the supplementary or synthetic object of the nomad war machine that it experiences the hesitation that proves fatal to it, and that the State apparatus for its part is able to lay hold of war and thus turn the war machine back against the nomads. The hesitation of the nomad is legendary: What is to be done with the lands conquered and crossed? Return them to the desert, to the steppe, to open pastureland? Or let a State apparatus survive that is capable of exploiting them directly, at the risk of becoming, sooner or later, simply a new dynasty of that apparatus: sooner or later because Genghis Khan and his followers were able to hold out for a long time by partially integrating themselves into the conquered empires, while at the same time maintaining a smooth space on the steppes to which the imperial centers were subordinated. That was their genius, the Pax Mongolica. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] war machines or egregore Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 422 >However, in conformity with the essence, the nomads do not hold the secret: an "ideological," scientific, or artistic movement can be a potential war machine, to the precise extent to which it draws, in relation to aphylum, a plane of consistency, [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] law more coded Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 453 > And when capital becomes an active right in this way, the entire historical figure of the law changes. The law ceases to be the overcoding of customs, as it was in the archaic empire; it is no longer a set of topics, as it was in the evolved States, the autonomous cities, and the feudal systems; it increasingly assumes the direct form and immediate characteristics of an axiomatic, as evidenced in our civil "code." [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] Elon Musk? Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 469 > The more the decoded flows enter into a central axiomatic, the more they tend to escape to the periphery, to present problems that the axiomatic is incapable of resolving or controlling (even by adding special axioms for the periphery). [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] lines of flight Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 315 > But this is true in a way altogether different from what psychoanalysis believes it to be. The decoded flows of desire form the free energy (libido) of the desiring-machines. The desiring-machines take form and train their sights along a tangent of deterritorialization that traverses the representative spheres, and that runs along the body without organs. Leaving, escaping, but while causing more escapes. The desiring-machines themselves are the flows-schizzes or the breaks-flows that break and flow at the same time on the body without organs: not the gaping wound represented in castration, but the myriad little connections, disjunctions, and conjunctions by which every machine produces a flow in relation to another that breaks it, and breaks a flow that another produces. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] stages Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 269 >A strange machine that is simultaneously a machine of war, music, and contagion-proliferation-involution. Fromm 234 - victotry of freedom if subdued Chaos - is that posisble? seems quite trad; but what about loneliness? > “The victory of freedom is possible only if democracy develops into a society in which the individual, his growth and happiness, is the aim and purpose of culture, in which life does not need any justification in success or anything else, and in which the individual is not subordinated to or manipulated by any power outside himself, be it the State or the economic machine; finally, a society in which his conscience and ideals are not the internalization of external demands, but are really his and express the aims that result from the peculiarity of his self.” [[Anti-Oedipus - Gilles Deleuze FeÌlix Guattari]] Anti-Oedipus, 289 Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity (see reference note 27), pp. 77-78. And pp. 90-98: > "With the globular protein we already have, at the molecular level, a veritable machine—a machine in its functional properties, but not, we now see, in its fundamental structure, where nothing but the play of blind combinations can be discerned. Randomness caught on the wing, preserved, reproduced by the machinery of invariance and thus converted into order, rule, necessity." killiing murder spree of gods - everyone can https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1416432341065420802 agency vs risk tolerance compass - 4x4 https://twitter.com/seconds_0/status/1594842387280703489 > spending computations to turn distrust into heat is something only an untrustworthy society would do [ twitter user Reyleighyc](https://twitter.com/reighleyc/status/1367878424346255362) > 1 like = 1 law or policy in my ideal Polis https://twitter.com/Heliotrophy/status/1480222067719122954 > you are sheltering a need for safety & regulation underneath your compulsive judgment of others, are you not? https://x.com/orphcorp/status/2019499596758577526/photo/1