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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Reading Anti-Oedipus is a complicated experience to relate, but the more I think about it, the operative word seems to be shocking. This book is unlike any book that I have ever read. The -at times- inscrutable verbiage, the provocative conceptualizing, the jovial jabs and the sheer amount of jokes and puns are all flashes of surprise, whether endearing or annoying. By the time you get used to this newfangled style of writing, the ambitious nature of the philosophical project catches you off guard. It is often difficult to convince yourself that the connections that are being made between seemingly disparate realms of theory and philosophy are not tenuous and there is more than smokes and mirrors made of over-the-top wordplay involved; But I think that is to be expected from such an audacious project as one that intends to entangle Marxist and Freudian frames of thought and undermining them at the same time. This was both an unforgettable and an elusive read, one that I'm sure I will go back to again and again.
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Reading Progress
May 22, 2019
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Started Reading
May 22, 2019
– Shelved
July 13, 2019
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36.5%
"The family is at the same time an anus that retains, a voice that resounds, and a mouth that consumes: its very own three syntheses, since it is a matter of connecting desire to the ready-made objects of social production. Go buy madeleines in Combray if you really want to feel the vibrations."
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146
July 17, 2019
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37.25%
"So Todd May starts one of his lectures by saying that when he started reading Deleuze, he could only read 4.5 pages per reading session, and that might be the only thing keeping me from losing the tiny remainder of my self-confidence."
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149
August 3, 2019
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42.75%
"[desire] is explosive; there is no desiring-machine capable of being assembled without demolishing entire social sectors. Despite what some revolutionaries think about this, desire is revolutionary in its essence—desire, not left-wing holidays!—and no society can tolerate a position of real desire without its structures of exploitation, servitude, and hierarchy being compromised."
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171
August 20, 2019
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50.5%
"The death of the primitive system always comes from without; history is the history of contingencies and encounters. Like a cloud blown in from the desert, the conquerors are there: 'In some way that is incomprehensible to me they have pushed right into the capital, although it is a long way from the frontier. At any rate, here they are; it seems that every morning there are more of them...'"
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202
September 2, 2019
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56.75%
"Here we go.
...perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, not decoded enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and a practice of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to "accelerate the process", as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet."
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...perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, not decoded enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and a practice of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to "accelerate the process", as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet."
September 20, 2019
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67.75%
"Capitalism defines a field of immanence and never ceases to fully occupy this field. Differential relations of such a nature as to be filled by surplus value; an absence of exterior limits that it is "filled" by the widening of internal limits; & the effusion of antiproduction within production so as to be filled by the absorption of surplus value—these constitute the three aspects of capitalism's immanent axiomatic."
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271
September 26, 2019
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71.0%
"I'm on the verge of losing my mind completely, but it hasn't been as catastrophic as I thought it would be. Mostly because I thought my sum total of understanding by this point would be significantly less than even one page."
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284
October 4, 2019
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75.75%
"This is the most difficult book I have ever read [three quarters in and I still don't know if I'll finally finish it] and quite possibly the most difficult book I will ever read."
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303
October 8, 2019
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77.75%
"Cynicism has said, or claimed to have said, everything there is to say about love: that it is a matter of a copulation of social and organic machines on a large scale; But what is properly cynical is to claim a scandal where there is none to be found, and to pass for bold while lacking boldness. Better the delirium of common sense than its platitude."
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311
October 9, 2019
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79.5%
"Production can be that of labor or that of desire, it can be social or desiring, it calls forth forces that no longer permit themselves to be contained in representation, and it calls forth flows and breaks that break through representation, traversing it through and through: an immense expanse of shade extended beneath the level of representation."
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318
October 23, 2019
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92.75%
" Libidinal investment does not bear upon the regime of the social syntheses, but upon the degree of development of the forces or the energies on which these syntheses depend. It does not bear upon the selections, detachments, and remainders effected by these syntheses, but upon the nature of the codes and the flows that condition them. "
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October 26, 2019
– Shelved as:
the-loved
October 26, 2019
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Finished Reading
October 17, 2020
– Shelved as:
philosophy-and-theory
