re/de

Deleuze's account of philosophy is of thinking
as a relation to territory. To the earth.
That the practice of philosophy occurs only when thought
inhabits a specific timeandplace. Just as the earth
becomes all territories in perpetual development,
continually defining and redefining new relations to
materials and forces, so philosophy is a continual
process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization,
of redefining relations and of re establishing borders.
Of generating difference.
Philosophy as a source of becoming, an open system,
a plurality of elements in constant interaction (but not
governed by an absolute order of Being-transcending-nature).

A geophilosophy.

An attempt to create a naturalistic and ecological way of
thinking that eliminates the dualism of humanity (as subject)
and nature (as object).

One breath.

Like a silent bus ride home so many years ago, a blue moon,
a midnight sky, gravel under tires, enveloping darkness,
an unexpected touch, a stranger's hand, a fingertip to palm,
warm skin sliding under, the steady grip of holding on and
nothing more than that.

The constantly transforming nature of a rhizome describes
the processes of territorialization: qualititative
changes of complex assemblages based on proliferating
relations between heterogeneous terms. And how every
assemblage is characterized by the process(es) of
constituting a territory that holds together distinct or
heterogeneous elements. Has a simultaneous
deterritorialization, which is the transformation of an
assemblage's previous relational quality and
reterritorialization, which is the passage from one kind
of territorial assemblage to another. That these movements
continually pass into one another.

Collective sigh.

How there are days when words spill across the eyes.
And others, when one seeks stillness in the voice of
someone else, in being read to.

There is a geography in people, made up of lines of flight.
Becomings belong to geography too, since they are orientations
or directions. They offer entries and exits. Creative functions
that proceed by intersections, crossings, points of encounter
that meet in the middle. Tip to tip. The movements of
deterritorialization and the processes of reterritorialization
always appear simultaneously in assemblages. For example,
humans became a deterritorialized animal when front feet
became hands (from locomotor to prehensile use) and the hand
became a deterritorialized paw, a deterritorialized locomotion,
yet it reterritorialized itself to swing from tree to tree.
Deterritorializations always have complementary
reterritorializations just like a nomad who is
deterritorialized, but reterritorializes as someone who does
not move, who remains attached to a home that s/he must flee.
These symbiotic becomings interlink the deterritorialiation
of one term to the reterritorialization of the other,
into forming relays of intensities.

The touch of a piano key,
single note lingering through a dark night,
clink of ice against a glass.

On a plane of immanence, there is the indefinite movement
of thought. Thought without proper limits. Absolute
horizon of events (concepts). Consistent and unified
horizon on which concepts are created and held together
in an unlimited milieu. A planemonon. Non-fragmented yet
open Whole which harbors concepts. Mobile environment
through which the internal components of concepts
incessantly travel in and inhabit. Necessary philosophical
condition, pre-philosophical plane that philosophy
acknowledges to create concepts on. The very image of
thought which is not itself a concept but the presupposition
of a concept. The power of thought as being continuous with
the tide of immanent experience.

Like cycling twenty miles through hard rain just to feel alive.
And how the air vibrates past eighty year old eyes.

Deleuze’s radical empiricism presents only events: possible
worlds as concepts and people as their expression. Where the
construction of concepts-events is a process of inventing new
modes of existence. Possibilities of life on a plane of
immanence. Believing it is only from the continuously limitless
plane of immanence along the infinite movement of thought that
new concepts and new modes of existence can be created which
won’t be betrayed by a transcendent plane. It is impossible for
any one plane of immanence to encompass that which is constantly
becoming. Each plane has its own way of constructing immanence,
for philosophers it is a field of variation, filled with
different concepts which make up a specific power of thought
and being to indicate what it means to think differently.

The sound of words in one's head
and how each letter has a particular colour.
Hearing colours.


Measuring a plane of immanence
by what one embraces,
by what one creates,
by who one includes
and
what
if
there
is
no
separation
between
mind
and
body
but
just
one
collective
shudder
yoursintomine
and
mineintoyours
like
alizarin crimson
dragged
across
the
page.

Dry brush line.

"I have always believed in numbers and the
equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a
lifetime of such pursuits, what truly is logic? What
is reason? My quest has taken me through the physical,
the metaphysical and the delusional and back and I have
made the most important discovery of my career, the
most important discovery of my life. It is only in the
mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons
can be found." (John Forbes Nash, mathematician)