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Full Idea
Before Being there is politics.
Gist of Idea
Before Being there is politics
Source
Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.13
A Reaction
[He says he is quoting Felix Guattari] I can only think that this is a very Marxist view - that politics permeates and dictates everything. This seems to tell me that I am forever controlled by something so deep and vast that I can never understand it.
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