Tag: Agamben

plane of immanence

plane of immanence Deleuze’s central project is to invent new images of thought to put in place of the classical system of representation of theoretical thought. For D+G, philosophy is at once the creating of concepts and instituting of the plane of immanence. (What is Philosophy?, p.41) (see also science / philosophy) According to Deleuze,…

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“Destituent Potential”

In modern thought, radical political changes have been thought of by means of the concept of a “constituent power.” Every constituent power presupposes at its origin a constituent power that, through a process that as a rule has the form of a revolution, brings it into being and gurantees it. If our hypothesis on the…

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mmg62ui35gyu24: Walter Benjamin once said that a child’s first experience of the world is not his realization that “adults are stronger but rather that he cannot make magic.” The statement was made under the influence of a twenty-miligram dose of mescaline, but that does not make it any less salient. –Agamben, Profanations