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Single Idea 21841
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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Full Idea
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
Gist of Idea
We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.
Source
Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.3
A Reaction
This sounds like the attitude of someone creating a computer game. A language game! The idea is to create concepts with which to 'palpitate' our conceptual scheme, in order to reveal it, and thus put it within our power.
The
22 ideas
from Gilles Deleuze
21845
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Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state
[Deleuze]
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21844
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The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names?
[Deleuze]
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21839
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When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything
[Deleuze]
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21841
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We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.
[Deleuze]
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21842
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Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it
[Deleuze]
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21838
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Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems
[Deleuze]
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21847
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Before Being there is politics
[Deleuze]
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21840
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A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid)
[Deleuze]
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21843
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People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight'
[Deleuze]
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21848
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Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system
[Deleuze]
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21850
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Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path
[Deleuze]
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21849
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Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine
[Deleuze]
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21907
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We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories
[Deleuze, by May]
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21903
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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure
[Deleuze, by May]
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21904
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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking
[Deleuze, by May]
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21908
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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[Deleuze, by May]
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21902
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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference'
[Deleuze]
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21851
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The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction
[Deleuze]
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21852
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Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21853
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We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society
[Deleuze]
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21899
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There is no being beyond becoming
[Deleuze]
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