A collection of quotes that have had an impact on me
Two inscriptions coexist in the imperial formation, and mutually adjust insofar as the one is imbricated into the other, but the new inscription cements the whole and brings the producers and products into relations with itself (they do not need to speak the same language).
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F., Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia, pp. 199
History is divided by the flood, an event that erased the scribal landscape of the past and consigned the kings and heroes, gods and legends to an inaccessible abode in the cold heavens and nameless graves. Magic has long sought to recover this lost knowledge, something that seemed irretrievable by conventional means. It is the edges of this ur-myth of human history that apocalypticism silvers and Revelation ultimately gilds.
Grey, Peter. lucifer:princeps, pp. 83
The relation between two levels of the phylum seems to be that the information stored in the abstract description of a mechanism serves as a constraint on processes of self-organization, determining the exact role they will play in a given assemblage.
Delanda, Manuel. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
The isolation of thought means absolute independence, the isolation of the heart is total liberty, the isolation of the senses is perfect abstinence.
Levi, Eliphas. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
Death is the phantom of ignorance; it does not exist: all is alive in nature, and it is because all is alive that everything incessantly mutates and changes form. Old age is the beginning of regeneration; it is life working to renew itself, and the mystery which we call death was symbolized by the ancients as the fountain of youth where on enter decrepit and exists a child
Levi, Eliphas. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
For Deleuze, sorcerers are able to disorganize the body creatively to avoid the confines of the human organism [confined to the “judgments of God”]
Ramey, Joshua. Hermetic Deleuze.
In an era marked by the proliferation of ideological hybrids—be they Islamic Marxism, neoliberal multiculturalism, or populist nationalism—Jazani’s critique acquires a prophetic quality. These hybrids often present themselves as pragmatic solutions to the complexities of modern struggles, promising to unify diverse constituencies under a shared banner. However, as Jazani demonstrates, such hybrids often serve to obscure the very contradictions they claim to address, deflecting revolutionary energy into channels that reinforce the status quo
Ghalamdar, Parham. SIAHKAL 2.0:
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