[[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]]
absurdity into spirituality
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 345
> As Klossowski says in his profound commentary on Nietzsche, a form of power is identical with the violence it exerts by its very absurdity, but it can exert this violence only by assigning itself aims and meanings in which even the most enslaved elements participate: "The sovereign formations will have no other purpose than that of masking the absence of a purpose or a meaning of their sovereignty by means of the organic purpose of their creation," and the purpose of thereby converting the absurdity into spirituality.