Tuesday, October 2, 2007

make yourself a (B)ody (w)ithout (O)rgans

"You don't reach the BwO by wildly destratifying...Staying stratified -- organized, signified, subjected -- is not the worst that can happen; the worst that can happen is if you throw the strata into demented or suicidal collapse, which brings them back down on us heavier than ever. This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times."

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Deleuze + Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

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