Deleuze! some more. A new journal. Brian Massumi Like a Thought!

- Brian Massumi: Like a thought
Editor on January 15th, 2008 in Issue #1



In: Massumi, Brian (Ed.): A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari, New York 2002, pp. xi-xxxvii.



“THE WORLD DOES NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF ITS EXPRESSIONS”

A clearer statement of the importance of the concept of expression for the philosophy of Deleuze and Deleuze-Guattari would be hard to find. Their entire ontology, this formula proclaims, revolves around it. A less fashionable concept, for late twentieth-century European thought, would also be hard to find. For many years, across many schools, “expression” has been anathema. The underlying assumption has been that any expressionism is an uncritical subjectivism. Expression conjures up the image of a self-governing, reflective individual whose inner life can be conveyed at will to a public composed of similarly sovereign individuals – rational atoms of human experience in voluntary congregation, usefully sharing thoughts and experiences. In a word: “communication.”
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