1. "I have
nothing to admit" -Gilles Deleuze
"I would like
to explain how I view what I have written. I belong to a generation, one of the last
generations, that wasmore or less assassinated with the history of philosophy. History of
philosophy has an obvious, repressive function in philosophy; it is philosophy's very own
Oedipus. "All the same you won't dare to speak in your own name as long as you have not
read this and that, and that on this, and this on that."
Nietzsche whom
I read late was the one who pulled me out of all this. For it is impossible to
submit him to such a treatment. He gives you a perverse taste that neither Marx nor Freud have
ever given you: the desire for everyone to say simple things in his own name, to speak through
affects, intensities,experiences, experiments. To say something in one's own name is very
strange, for it is not at all when we consider ourselves as selves, persons, or subjects that we
speak in our own name. On the contrary, an individual acquires a true proper name as the
result of the most severe operations of depersonalization, when he opens himself to multiplicities
that pervade him and to intensities which run right through his whole being.
The depth of what
I don't know, the deepness of my own underdevelopment is where I speak
from from.
The problem is
not one of being this or that in man, but rather one of becoming human, of a
universal becoming animal: not to take oneself for a beast, but to undo the human organization
of the body, to cut across such and such a zone of intensity in the body, everyone of us
discovering the zones which are really his, and the groups, the populations, the species which
inhabit him.
Why shouldn't I
speak of medicine without being a doctor if I speak of it as a dog?
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