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Body without organs
Thought without images

[6 @nonbyronic]

I have chosen to work in a nature reserve in France and read Spinoza slowly for the next couple years. I plan to finish Decartes' La Géométrie by next summer.

[Anders K. Hvelplund @Falliblemusings]

You don’t need to choose. You can take the path of Einstein, who used a 'tedious' job to fund the stability his genius required. Or you can follow the martyrs, Van Gogh, Dostoevsky, and Diogenes, and accept the price of not paying your rent.

Or, you can respect and recognize the art in responsibility. Garbage collectors stave off the chaos of the world, preschool teachers raise the next Einsteins, caregivers alleviates suffering. And your landlord is offering you the best price-value for shelter you have found. If you accept the terms.

[roon @tszzl]

In their account of capitalism, surely the most impressive since Marx's, Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the 'unnamable Thing', the abomination, which primitive and feudal societies 'warded off in advance'. When it actually arrives, capitalism brings with it a massive desacralization of culture. It is a system which is no longer governed by any transcendent Law; on the contrary, it dismantles all such codes, only to re-install them on an ad hoc basis. The limits of capitalism are not fixed by fiat, but defined (and re- defined) pragmatically and improvisationally.

[6 @nonbyronic]

Just as I thought I had broken free, I fell into a psychotic state a few months ago when it struck me that Spinoza, in fact, proves that time moves backwards, and I haven’t found peace since.

[6 @nonbyronic]

@tenshi_anna No need for melancholy, you have lost nothing. You have merely arrived at the vanishing point of the metaphysics of nothingness. You are exactly where you started from. This is why the only way is, always, to start with, and from, truth.

[6 @nonbyronic]

Concerning considering German Idealism is responsible for the Holocaust

[Karl Schafer @schafer_karl]

This is like Schelling and Hegel all over again

[6 @nonbyronic]

I believe Deleuze's "machine" is not technophilia — it echoes Spinoza’s spiritual automaton, Spinoza's own reinterpretation of Descartes’ automaton, stripped of dualism and reinserted into an immanent, pantheistic order. Leibniz will later spiritualize it again with monads

[ციალი 🗡️ @crypsis000]

When Deleuze chose to use the word "machine" it always turned me off as technophilic, but now I understand why he needs it: he wants to use the word precisely because it doesn't resemble, is alien in any sense to what it makes possible — Desire, Face, etc.

[6 @nonbyronic]

@pachabelcanon @lu_sichu But also qualia

[francis @pachabelcanon]

the substance i need to abuse is the sole substance with infinite attributes and modes

[Mateba @NewSweezyite]

spinoza will write a coherent observation and hegel just goes "Well you're jewish and chinese"

[Gilles Deleuze For You @DeleuzeForYou]

Spinoza didn’t title his book ‘Ontology’, he’s too shrewd for that; he titles it ‘Ethics’ which is a way of saying that, whatever the importance of my speculative propositions may be, you can only judge them at the level of the ethics that they envelope or implicate.

[6 @nonbyronic]

@obscurantist @DeleuzeForYou whatever llm you used to come up with this it literally misses the point being made

[Gilles Deleuze For You @DeleuzeForYou]

The phrase "God is dead" is not a speculative proposition but a dramatic proposition, ‘the’ dramatic proposition ‘par excellence’ — God cannot be made the object of synthetic knowledge without death entering into him.

[6 @nonbyronic]

@rubydice100 Congratz on encounterering the average person

[6 @nonbyronic]

@mcrumps tbh she's such a mess I'm starting to root for her

[no earthquake (undignified) @no_earthquake]

remember the intersection of art and technology? what was that about

[Woody @evilspinoza]

I don't mind what happens,
I'm mindful of it.

[6 @nonbyronic]

@no_earthquake Wait, dude, you're like, an actual bourgeoise. I thought you're just smart

[punished giorgio @GMomurder]

@arne__ness One of the shocking things about going to grad school has been finding how few people actually engage with contemporary thought (TikTok)

[6 @nonbyronic]

@sl0thentr0py fuck it add a romanian in there