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| 21852 | Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable |
| Full Idea: There is no history from the viewpoint of nomads, although everything passes through them, to the point that they are like the noumena or the unknowable of history. | |||
| From: Gilles Deleuze (Many Politics [1977], p.107) | |||
| A reaction: Nomads have the same place in society that indeterminate 'stuff' has in an object-orientated metaphysics. Deleuze seems to be romanticising nomads the way the late Victorians romanticised gypsies. |
| 21853 | We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society |
| Full Idea: What characterises our situation is ….the extension of capitalism to the whole social body. | |||
| From: Gilles Deleuze (Many Politics [1977], p.110) | |||
| A reaction: This is driven by the naïve people who think all problems can be solved by market forces, and that to everything that goes bankrupt we should just say 'good riddance'. |
| 21851 | The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction |
| Full Idea: There will always be a tension between the State apparatus with its requirement for self-preservation, and the war-machine in its undertaking to destroy the State, to destroy the subjects of the State, and even to destroy itself. | |||
| From: Gilles Deleuze (Many Politics [1977], p.106) | |||
| A reaction: This seems to fit WWI quite well, but the desire of the war-machine to destroy the State which pays for it sounds unlikely. Nevertheless war is appalling for the state, but it is the whole point of the war-machine, which gets restless. |