“Direction, that’s what I’m after, everything moving together, relative movement, sympathetic movement, connected movement, flowing, liquid, universal movement, all directions summing up in one grand direction…”
“Theory makes you desire mastery: you hope that theoretical reading will give you the concepts to organize and understand the phenomena that concern you. But theory makes mastery impossible, not only because there is always more to know, but, more specifically and more painfully, because theory is itself the questioning of presumed results and the assumptions on which they are based. The nature of theory is to undo, through a contesting of premisses and postulates, what you thought you knew, so the effects of theory are not predictable. You have not become master, but neither are you where you were before. You reflect on your reading in new ways. You have different questions to ask and a better sense of the implications of the questions you put to works you read.”
— Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (via 11-9n)
Reality is here and now, everywhere, gleaming through every reflection that meets the eye…. Everybody is a neurotic, down to the last man and woman. The healer, or analyst, if you like, is only super-neurotic…. To be cured we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another -it is a private affair which is best done collectively.
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via neoloserism)
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