[[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] geology of the morals - layers; strata is not assemblage, assemblage is the tragic state between them. But what’s the plane of consistency then? Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 40 > "A surface of stratification is a more compact plane of consistency lying between two layers. The layers are the strata. They come at least in pairs, one serving as substratum for the other. The surface of stratification is a machinic assemblage distinct from the strata. The assemblage is between two layers, between two strata; on one side it faces the strata (in this direction, the assemblage is an interstratum), but the other side faces something else, the body without organs or plane of consistency (here, it is a metastratum). In effect, the body without organs is itself the plane of consistency, which becomes compact or thickens at the level of the strata."