I like this (from *L’abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze* ):
“I don’t believe in culture, to some extent, but rather I believe in
encounters. But these encounters don’t occur with people. People always
think that it’s with people that encounters occur, which is why it’s
awful.… Now, in this, that belongs to the domain of culture, intellectuals
meeting one another, this disgusting practice of conferences, this infamy.
So encounters, it’s not between people that they happen, but with things.…
So I encounter a… painting, yes, or a piece of music, that’s how I
understand an encounter. When people want to connect encounters to
themselves, with people, well, that doesn’t work at all.… That’s not an
encounter, and that’s why encounters with people are so utterly, utterly
disappointing. Encounters with people are always catastrophic."
On 2 March 2013 01:28, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The below quote from Kant shows up rather nicely the undertaking of D&G /A
> Thousand Plateaus/ which some may find of interest...
>
> At first, her government, under the administration of the /dogmatists/,
> was an absolute /despotism/. But, as the legislative continued to show
> traces of the ancient barbaric rule, her empire gradually broke up, and
> intestine wars introduced the reign of /anarchy/; while the /sceptics/,
> like nomadic tribes, who hate a permanent habitation and settled mode of
> living, attacked from time to time those who had organized themselves into
> civil communities. But their number was, very happily, small; and thus they
> could not entirely put a stop to the exertions of those who persisted in
> raising new edifices, although on no settled or uniform plan (Kant, Preface
> to Critique Pure Reason pp xvii-xviii)
>
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