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:"The history of ideas should never be continuous; it should be wary of resemblances, but also of descents or filiations; it should be content to mark the thresholds through which an idea passes, the journeys it takes that change its nature or object." (235) | :"The history of ideas should never be continuous; it should be wary of resemblances, but also of descents or filiations; it should be content to mark the thresholds through which an idea passes, the journeys it takes that change its nature or object." (235) | ||
:"A becoming is not a correspondence between relations. But neither is it a resemblance, an imitation, or, at the limit, an identification." (237) | |||
:"Becoming produces nothing other than itself. We fall into a false alternative if we say tha tyou either imitate or you are. What is real si the becoming itself, the block of becoming, not the supposedly fixed terms through which that which becomes passes. Becoming can and should be qualified as becoming-animal even in the absence of a term that would be the animal become. the becoming-animal of the human being is real, even if the animal the human being becomes is not; and the becoming-other of the animal is real, even if that something other it becomes is not. This is the point to clarify: that a becoming lacks a subject distinct from itself; but also that it has no term, since its term in turn exists only as taken up in another becoming of which it is the subject, and which coexists, forms a block, with the first." (238) | |||
'''involution''': a form of evolution between heterogeneous terms; not filiation or the movement from less differentiation to more; "becoming is involutionary, involution is creative" (238) | |||
:"'''Becoming is a rhizome, not a classificatory or genealogical tree.''' Becoming is certainly not imitating, or identifying with something; neither is it regressing-progressing; neither is it corresponding, establishing corresponding relations; neither is it producing, producing a filiation or producing through filiation. Becoming ia verb with consistency all its own; it does not reduce to, or lead back to, "appearing," "being," "equaling," or "producing."" (239) | |||
== 1837: Of the Refrain == | == 1837: Of the Refrain == | ||
Revision as of 23:43, 13 February 2011
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Rhizome (Introduction)
1914: One or Several Wolves?
10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?)
November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics
587 B.C.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs
November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?
Year Zero: Faciality
1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?"
1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity
1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible...
- "Natural history can think only in terms of relationships (between A and B), not in terms of production (from A to x)." (234)
relationships:
- series (analogy of proportion) -- "resemblances that differ from one another in a single series, and between series" (234)
- structure (analogy of proportionality) -- "differences that resemble each other within a single structure, and between structures" (234)
- "The history of ideas should never be continuous; it should be wary of resemblances, but also of descents or filiations; it should be content to mark the thresholds through which an idea passes, the journeys it takes that change its nature or object." (235)
- "A becoming is not a correspondence between relations. But neither is it a resemblance, an imitation, or, at the limit, an identification." (237)
- "Becoming produces nothing other than itself. We fall into a false alternative if we say tha tyou either imitate or you are. What is real si the becoming itself, the block of becoming, not the supposedly fixed terms through which that which becomes passes. Becoming can and should be qualified as becoming-animal even in the absence of a term that would be the animal become. the becoming-animal of the human being is real, even if the animal the human being becomes is not; and the becoming-other of the animal is real, even if that something other it becomes is not. This is the point to clarify: that a becoming lacks a subject distinct from itself; but also that it has no term, since its term in turn exists only as taken up in another becoming of which it is the subject, and which coexists, forms a block, with the first." (238)
involution: a form of evolution between heterogeneous terms; not filiation or the movement from less differentiation to more; "becoming is involutionary, involution is creative" (238)
- "Becoming is a rhizome, not a classificatory or genealogical tree. Becoming is certainly not imitating, or identifying with something; neither is it regressing-progressing; neither is it corresponding, establishing corresponding relations; neither is it producing, producing a filiation or producing through filiation. Becoming ia verb with consistency all its own; it does not reduce to, or lead back to, "appearing," "being," "equaling," or "producing."" (239)