Karellen’s Reviews > Gilles Deleuze from A to Z > Status Update

“I think that no leftist government exists, which is not astonishing, our government that should be on the left but isn't. The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. But a leftist government does not exist since being on the Left has nothing to do with governments.”

Fascinating to watch Deleuze now, so long after his death, talking to us in this way, it’s a fitting tribute to this great thinker. So far most reviewers have given this 5* and I’m probably going to join them.

Amazing to think he’s been dead for 25 years. But his legacy lives on, at least among those of us that are interested in these kind of things.

I’m still reading it. What the fuck.

It’s basically a translation of an 8 hour interview from 1988 which is pretty fascinating stuff for GD fans, who describes himself as not cultivated, and seems almost in awe of the knowledge that intellectuals possess, a situation I often encounter myself. He says talking is dirty but writing is clean.