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“To affirm is not to take responsibility for, to take on the burden of what is, but to release, to set free what lives. To affirm is to unburden: not to load life with the weight of higher values, but to create new values which are those of life, which make life light and
active”

this is the limit of a “theory” of democracy, the point at which theory runs into a wall. Only social practice can break through this wall, by giving body to the process of political assemblage.
یکی از زیباترین جمله ها! باید به مدد پراکسیس اجتماعی، دیوار تئوری را شکست....

In the passage of freedom, then, from multiplicity to multitude, Spinoza composes and intensifies anarchy in democracy. Spinozian democracy, the absolute rule of the multitude through the equality of its constituent members, is founded on the “art of organizing encounters.

Just as Spinoza's claim of the autonomy of the attributes is an attack against the Cartesian primacy of thought, against the theoretical framework that effectively subsumes the body within the order of the mind, so too our Deleuzian claim of the autonomy of practice is a reaction to conceptions of a primacy of theory that effectively subsume practice within theory.

Just as we continually descended within the internal structure of power, here too we must descend to the lowest, most local, level of commonality to initiate our practical project
منظور مایکل جان " انبوه خلق" میتونه باشه:)

An encounter between our body and this other body will necessarily be joyful, because the common relationship guarantees a compatibility and the opportunity to compose a new relationship, thereby increasing our power.

There is no innocent or objective reading of the world, of society, of political economy.

the power to think and know cannot be greater than a necessarily correlative power of existing.

Just as the Theses on Feuerbach and The German Ideology are said to constitute a “break” in Marx's thought, so too the analysis of power functions as a point of conversion in Spinoza: It is the moment in which we stop striving to think the world, and begin to create it.