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Single Idea 21847

[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being ]

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.

The 22 ideas from Gilles Deleuze

21844 The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names? [Deleuze]
21845 Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state [Deleuze]
21839 When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything [Deleuze]
21841 We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things. [Deleuze]
21842 Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it [Deleuze]
21838 Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems [Deleuze]
21847 Before Being there is politics [Deleuze]
21840 A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid) [Deleuze]
21843 People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight' [Deleuze]
21849 Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine [Deleuze]
21850 Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path [Deleuze]
21848 Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system [Deleuze]
21907 We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May]
21908 Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]
21903 Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]
21904 Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]
21901 'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]
21902 'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]
21851 The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction [Deleuze]
21852 Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable [Deleuze]
21853 We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society [Deleuze]
21899 There is no being beyond becoming [Deleuze]