Status Updates From A Thousand Plateaus: Capita...

'The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance'

I already want to write so many essays and I've just read one chapter!!!!! But their writing style is very dense and tiring and I think I have had enough for a while. Which is how they'd no doubt want it!

BANGER AFTER BANGER AFTER BANGER AFTER BANGER !!!!!!!!!!

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

There is no universal capitalism, there is no capitalism in itself; capitalism is at the crossroads of all kinds of formations, it is neocapitalism by nature. It invents its eastern face and western face, and reshapes them both — all for the worst.

'Have we not, however, reverted to a simple dualism by contrasting maps to tracings, as good and bad sides? Is it not of the essence of the map to be traceable? Is it not of the essence of the rhizome to intersect roots and sometimes merge with them?'

Huh? What about palimpsests as residual tracings, a shadow rhizome network. 2D to 3D, all stacked in the pluriverse.

Got to love a heavy theory book where Deleuze muses on “conceiving of the history of philosophy as a kind of ass-fuck, or, what amounts to the same thing, an immaculate conception. I imagined myself approaching an author from behind and giving him a child that would indeed be his but would nonetheless be monstrous.”