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"For many people, philosophy is something which is not ‘made’, but is pre-existent, ready-made in a prefabricated sky. However, philosophical theory is itself a practice, just as much as its object. It is no more abstract than its object. It is a practice of concepts, and it must be judged in the light of the other practices with which it interferes."
— Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989: p. 280)
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"The decision makers, however, attempt to manage these clouds of sociality according to input/output matrices, following a logic which implies that their elements are commensurable and that the whole is determinable. They allocate our lives for the growth of power. In matters of social justice and of scientific truth alike, the legitimation of the power is based on its optimizing the system’s performance—efficiency. The application of this criterion to all of our games necessarily entails a certain level of terror, whether soft or hard: be operational (that is commensurable) or disappear."
— Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979: p. xxiv)
"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"
— Gilles Deleuze (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia)
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Cycling is like life
You can always ride yourself out of the bad times. Keep you cadence high, your mind sharp and your arms tucked in; better form and better life are just a few tough days away.
stay creative.
Always.
