"To become animal, to become imperceptible" - I like this. Idk anything about those people. Philosophers? The phrase makes sense. Nature is nondiscreet ; our perception is what causes nature to cohere...
Its taken me about a year and a half simmering (and likely actually understanding under 100 pages) on chapters and sections from Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatttari's "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" opus to begin internalizing what they're talking about.
"Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible" comes from A Thousand Plateaus, which I think I've digested more than Anti-Oedipus, but I find myself always coming back to Mark Seem's introduction to Anti-Oedipus as orientation:
"In order to carry out this ambitious undertaking, Anti-Oedipus makes use of many writers and thinkers, whose concepts flow together with all the other elements in the book in what might well be described as a carefully constructed and executed experiment in delirium"
"While Deleuze and Guattari use many authors and concepts, this is never done in an academic fashion aimed at persuading the reader. Rather, they use these names and ideas as effects that traverse their analyses, generating ever new effects, as points of reference indeed, but also as points of intensity and signs pointing a way out: points-signs that offer a multiplicity of solutions and a variety of directions for a new style of politics."
"Where Nietzsche grew progressively more isolated to the point of madness, Deleuze and Guattari call for actions and passions of a
collective nature, here and now. Madness is a radical break from power in the form of a disconnection."
"Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible" comes from A Thousand Plateaus, which I think I've digested more than Anti-Oedipus, but I find myself always coming back to Mark Seem's introduction to Anti-Oedipus as orientation:
"In order to carry out this ambitious undertaking, Anti-Oedipus makes use of many writers and thinkers, whose concepts flow together with all the other elements in the book in what might well be described as a carefully constructed and executed experiment in delirium"
"While Deleuze and Guattari use many authors and concepts, this is never done in an academic fashion aimed at persuading the reader. Rather, they use these names and ideas as effects that traverse their analyses, generating ever new effects, as points of reference indeed, but also as points of intensity and signs pointing a way out: points-signs that offer a multiplicity of solutions and a variety of directions for a new style of politics."
"Where Nietzsche grew progressively more isolated to the point of madness, Deleuze and Guattari call for actions and passions of a
collective nature, here and now. Madness is a radical break from power in the form of a disconnection."