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Single Idea 21848
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 2. Freedom of belief
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Full Idea
There are lines which do not amount to the path of a point, which break free from structure - lines of flight, becomings, without future or past, without memory, which resist the binary machine. …The rhizome is all this.
Clarification
A rhizome is a low-level plant putting out innumerable roots
Gist of Idea
Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system
Source
Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], II)
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.19
A Reaction
The binary machine enforces simplistic either/or choices. I assume the 'lines' are to replace the Self, with something much more indeterminate, active and changing.
Related Idea
Idea 21843
People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight' [Deleuze]
The
22 ideas
from Gilles Deleuze
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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21845
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Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state
[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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21838
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Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems
[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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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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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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21848
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Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system
[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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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[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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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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