Gilles Deleuze For You
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The writings of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, pure metaphysician.
You never say that a philosopher contradicts himself; you will ask about a particular page, in what sequence to put it, at what level of the sequence.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You never say that a philosopher contradicts himself; you will ask about a particular page, in what sequence to put it, at what level of the sequence.
The problem is not to render everything coherent, the question is to know where you’re going to put the accent.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The problem is not to render everything coherent, the question is to know where you’re going to put the accent.
In the Pangymnasticon, there are machines: no system without machines, a system, rigorously speaking, is a structural unity of machines, so much so that one must burst the system to reach the machines.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
In the Pangymnasticon, there are machines: no system without machines, a system, rigorously speaking, is a structural unity of machines, so much so that one must burst the system to reach the machines.
In all this, we are bathing in the negative. Clichés everywhere, clichés that float, that turn into mental clichés and then turn back into physical clichés. And so what happens? You have to evaluate words, you have to evaluate images by their weight.
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
In all this, we are bathing in the negative. Clichés everywhere, clichés that float, that turn into mental clichés and then turn back into physical clichés. And so what happens? You have to evaluate words, you have to evaluate images by their weight.
But decision-making centers constitute the center, okay. But precisely, the center is becoming less and less geographical. And it is because the center is deterritorialized that the territorial acceptation they had, center and periphery, tends to lose its relevance,
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
But decision-making centers constitute the center, okay. But precisely, the center is becoming less and less geographical. And it is because the center is deterritorialized that the territorial acceptation they had, center and periphery, tends to lose its relevance,
You will ask me: what will that change? Well, it is this alone which explains, it seems to me, the reversal of movement that we have just seen, namely that at the center, at the same time as the investment of constant capital increases, a force of labor is produced …
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
You will ask me: what will that change? Well, it is this alone which explains, it seems to me, the reversal of movement that we have just seen, namely that at the center, at the same time as the investment of constant capital increases, a force of labor is produced …
We will say: what was it that allowed this displacement of a highly developed economic sector in the Third World? This is even what would distinguish, in what is called the Third World from the former colonies: in the former colonies, there was an undeveloped economy.
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We will say: what was it that allowed this displacement of a highly developed economic sector in the Third World? This is even what would distinguish, in what is called the Third World from the former colonies: in the former colonies, there was an undeveloped economy.
But capitalism in its present form is no longer directed toward production, which is often transferred to remote parts of the Third World, even in the case of complex operations like textile plants, steelworks, and oil refineries. It's directed toward metaproduction.
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
But capitalism in its present form is no longer directed toward production, which is often transferred to remote parts of the Third World, even in the case of complex operations like textile plants, steelworks, and oil refineries. It's directed toward metaproduction.
Let us consider the interpretation of Marxism by Althusser and his collaborators: above all the relations of production are determined as differential relations that are established, not between real men or concrete individuals, but between objects and agents which first of all have a symbolic value
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Let us consider the interpretation of Marxism by Althusser and his collaborators: above all the relations of production are determined as differential relations that are established, not between real men or concrete individuals, but between objects and agents which first of all have a symbolic value
It has nothing to do with a ‘form’: for structure is not at all defined by an autonomy of the whole, by a preeminence of the whole over its parts, by a ‘Gestalt’ which would operate in the real and in perception. Structure is defined, on the contrary, by the nature of certain atomic elements
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It has nothing to do with a ‘form’: for structure is not at all defined by an autonomy of the whole, by a preeminence of the whole over its parts, by a ‘Gestalt’ which would operate in the real and in perception. Structure is defined, on the contrary, by the nature of certain atomic elements
There is good reason to ascribe the origin of structuralism to linguistics: not only Saussure, but the Moscow and Prague schools. And if structuralism then migrates to other domains, this occurs without it being a question of analogy, nor merely in order to establish methods "equivalent" to those
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
There is good reason to ascribe the origin of structuralism to linguistics: not only Saussure, but the Moscow and Prague schools. And if structuralism then migrates to other domains, this occurs without it being a question of analogy, nor merely in order to establish methods "equivalent" to those
The writer returns from what he has seen and heard with bloodshot eyes and pierced eardrums. What health would be sufficient to liberate life wherever it is imprisoned by and within man, by and within organisms and genera?
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The writer returns from what he has seen and heard with bloodshot eyes and pierced eardrums. What health would be sufficient to liberate life wherever it is imprisoned by and within man, by and within organisms and genera?
Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If it is so disgusting to judge, it is not because everything is of equal value, but on the contrary because what has value can be made or distinguished only by defying judgment.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If it is so disgusting to judge, it is not because everything is of equal value, but on the contrary because what has value can be made or distinguished only by defying judgment.
It's not a matter of bringing all sorts of things together under one concept but rather of relating each concept to variables that explain its mutations.
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It's not a matter of bringing all sorts of things together under one concept but rather of relating each concept to variables that explain its mutations.
Affects aren't feelings, they're becomings that spill over beyond whoever lives through them (thereby becoming someone else).
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Affects aren't feelings, they're becomings that spill over beyond whoever lives through them (thereby becoming someone else).
I have, it's true, spent a lot of time writing about this notion of event: you see, I don't believe in things.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I have, it's true, spent a lot of time writing about this notion of event: you see, I don't believe in things.
It is not at all the case that revolutions are determined by technical progress. Rather, they are made possible by this gap between the two series, which solicits realignments of the economic and political totality in relation to the parts of the technical progress.
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It is not at all the case that revolutions are determined by technical progress. Rather, they are made possible by this gap between the two series, which solicits realignments of the economic and political totality in relation to the parts of the technical progress.
The superior exercise of speech is born when speech is addressed to what can only be spoken. Is there anything that can only be spoken about? We can stop right there, say: no. All right, but if we try: for Blanchot there is something that can only be spoken,
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The superior exercise of speech is born when speech is addressed to what can only be spoken. Is there anything that can only be spoken about? We can stop right there, say: no. All right, but if we try: for Blanchot there is something that can only be spoken,
One after the other, the impossibility of a Platonic language and a pre-Socratic language, of an idealistic language and a physical language, of a manic language and a schizophrenic language are exposed.
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
One after the other, the impossibility of a Platonic language and a pre-Socratic language, of an idealistic language and a physical language, of a manic language and a schizophrenic language are exposed.
All of us are deeply incoherent, all. We hold onto something from a tradition, and then we enter into something new. We never stop having, of being unbalanced.
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
All of us are deeply incoherent, all. We hold onto something from a tradition, and then we enter into something new. We never stop having, of being unbalanced.
But it’s fantastic: to have no opinion! Ah, but it’s a joy! So then, what are people in power? They are those who do not know that it is a joy to have no opinion.
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
But it’s fantastic: to have no opinion! Ah, but it’s a joy! So then, what are people in power? They are those who do not know that it is a joy to have no opinion.
One thing is certain to me: a philosopher is not someone who contemplates or even reflects. A philosopher is someone who creates, simply that he creates a very special kind of thing. He creates concepts.
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
One thing is certain to me: a philosopher is not someone who contemplates or even reflects. A philosopher is someone who creates, simply that he creates a very special kind of thing. He creates concepts.
Nietzsche distrusted the orientation by height and asked whether, far from representing the fulfilment of philosophy, it marked rather, from Socrates onward, its degeneration and wandering.
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Nietzsche distrusted the orientation by height and asked whether, far from representing the fulfilment of philosophy, it marked rather, from Socrates onward, its degeneration and wandering.
Find what you like. Never spend a second criticizing something or someone. Never criticize, never, never, never. And if someone criticizes you, you say, “fine, move along”, eh? Nothing to be done. Find your molecules. If you don’t find your molecules, you cannot even read.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Find what you like. Never spend a second criticizing something or someone. Never criticize, never, never, never. And if someone criticizes you, you say, “fine, move along”, eh? Nothing to be done. Find your molecules. If you don’t find your molecules, you cannot even read.
Reactive forces would never prevail without a will which develops the projections, which organises the necessary fictions. The fiction of a world-beyond in the ascetic ideal: this is what accompanies the steps of ‘ressentiment’ and bad conscience,
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reactive forces would never prevail without a will which develops the projections, which organises the necessary fictions. The fiction of a world-beyond in the ascetic ideal: this is what accompanies the steps of ‘ressentiment’ and bad conscience,