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The principal strata binding human are the organism, signifiance, and interpretation, and subjectification and subjection. These strata together are what separates us from the plane of consistency and the abstract machine, where there is no longer any regime of signs, where the line of flight effectuates its own potential positivity and deterritorialization its absolute power. The problem, from this standpoint, is to tip to most favorable assemblage from its side facing the strata to its side facing the plane of consistency or the body without organs. Subjectification carries desire to such a point of excess and unloosening that it must either annihilate itself in a black hole or change planes. Destratify, open up to a new function, a diagrammatic function. Let consciousness cease to be its own double, and passion the double of one person for another. Make consciousness an experimentation in life, and passion a field of continuous intensities, an emission of particle-signs. Make the body without organs of consciousness and love. Use love and consciousness to abolish subjectification […] Use the I think for a becoming-animal, and love for a becoming-woman of man. Desubjectify consciousness and passion. Are there not diagrammatic redundancies distinct from both signifying redundancies and subjective redundancies? Redundancies that would no longer be knots of arborescence but resumptions and upsurges in rhizomes?

Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, “On Several Regimes of Signs,” 134

(via feelingpolitical)

What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want everybody to open up. I’m like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin— to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I’m sure of it.

Henry Miller, Sexus (via faulknerandfieldnotes)

It after reading baudrillards discussion of the hyper real, or porn, of obesity, of sex, or seduction, and the object, that for the first time I was able to formulate to myself how much my own work dealt with the explorations of the real, and this is an enormous part of what I do as an artist reinstill and explore the real. I sculpt to give a space for the real to unfold, I perform to give an inkling of what it might be like on the other side