 Bradley McLean
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Here are a few of my favourite Deleuzioguattarian quotes,
beginning with what is perhaps their most famous paragraph:
beginning with what is perhaps their most famous paragraph:
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Desiring-production...
"is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breaths, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to ever have said the id. Everywhere it is machines -- real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by machines, with all necessary couplings and connections." (AO 1) |
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“Machines attach themselves to the body without organs as so many points of disjunction, between which an entire network of new syntheses is now woven, marking the surface off into co-ordinates, like a grid.” (AO 12)
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“Social production is purely and simply desiring production itself under determinate conditions.” (AO 29) 
"Writing has nothing to do with signifying. It has to do with surveying, mapping, even realms that are yet to come." (TP) 
“But Philosophy isn’t a Power. Religions, states, capitalism, science, the law, public opinion, and television are powers, but not philosophy....Not being a power, philosophy can’t battle with powers that be, but it fights a war without battles, a guerrilla campaign against them. And it can’t converse with them, it’s got nothing to communication, and can only negotiate. Since the powers aren’t external things, but permeate each of us, philosophy throws us all into constant negotiations with, and a guerrilla campaign against, ourselves.” Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990 (1995), i. 
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“A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.” (TP 7) 
“We’re tired of trees . . . They’ve made us suffer too much.” (TP 15)
“Once a rhizome has been obstructed, arborified, it’s all over, no desire stirs; for it is always by rhizome that desire moves and produced . . . Whenever desire climbs a tree, internal repercussions trip it up and it falls to its death; the rhizome, on the other hand, acts on desire by external, productive outgrowths.” (TP 5) 
“We will never ask what a book means, as a signifier or signified . . . we will ask what it functions with, in connection with what other things it does or does not transmit intensities, in which other multiplicities its own are inserted and metamorphosed . . . ”. (TP 4)
“Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions. Making a clean slate, starting or beginning again from ground zero, seeking a beginning or foundation—all imply a false conception of voyage and movement . . . But (there is) another way of traveling and moving: proceeding from the middle, through the middle, coming and going rather than starting and finishing.” (TP 25) |
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"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” (Brian Massumi, Preface to TP, xii)
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"The refrain (ritornello), for me, is absolutely linked to the problem of territory, and of processes of entrance or exit of the territory, meaning to the problem of deterritorialization. I enter in my territory, I try, or I deterritorialize myself, meaning I leave my territory." Deleuze, Abécédaire.
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“Your only choice will be between a goat’s ass and the face of the god, between sorcerers and priests.” (TP 116)
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God is a Lobster, or a double pincer, a double bind....Each stratum exhibits phenomena constitutive of double articulation. Articulate twice, B-A, BA. This is not at all to say that the strata speak or are language based....The first articulation chooses or deducts, from unstable particle-flows, metastable molecular or quasi-molecular units (substances) upon which it imposes a statistical order of connections and successions (forms). (TP 40)
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