• open/closed

    [I]f all the future is already given in the past, if the future is merely that modality of time where previously determined possibilities become realized, then true innovation is impossible. To avoid this mistake … we must struggle to model the future as truly open-ended

    (de Landa, 1999, p. 34).
  • Can we reforest a clearcut imaginary?

    Might we reforest imaginaries that stand in reserve to the wilds of the unknown

    and not our desires for wooden enclosures?

  • 'Take a lump of sugar: It has a spatial configuration. But if we approach it from that angle, all we ever will grasp are differences in degree between that sugar and any other thing. But it also has a duration, a rhythm of duration, a way of being in time that is at least partially revealed in the process of its dissolving, and that shows how this sugar differs in kind not only from other things, but first and foremost from itself…. In this respect, Bergson’s famous formulation, ‘I must wait until the sugar dissolves’ has a still broader meaning than is given to it by its context. It signifies that my own duration, such as I live it in the impatience of waiting, for example, serves to reveal other durations that beat to other rhythms, that differ in kind from mine' (Deleuze, 1988, p. 31-32).
  • I will not know my future regrets, pre-spectres of the casualties of being – as I will be alone with an ever-expanding past inside a body that logs deeds in flesh
  • A machinic storying of self as difference

    and algorithmic contingency, a gathering of vacillations and vibrations,

    the becomings of subtle change, a momentary narrative coherence that is a life
  • and meanwhile:

    a dog will bark

    a child will sweat fitfully in sleep

    a signal will cross

    a bird will drop its stone

    a fire will burn upon smooth rocks

    the waters will rise

    the light will flicker

    a window will open
  • When I have read these words, that part of me reading will join everything else in the world as it was in the moment just before now
  • "Every language is an essentially heterogenous reality" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987 p.93).

    "How can we conceptualize this continuous variation at work within a language?" (p. 94).

  • difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference. difference.
  • "The design of the sixth child though was too ambitious. We stretched the flesh too far, asked too much of it and saw the consequence of minds that were too diverse and powerful to adhere upon a single point long enough to develop self or integrate within the boundedness of their bodies.

    Due to a proliferation of attention, my child's flesh failed to thrive. Throughout their long final days, we collectively held their bodies in our arms. I remember feeling the thin energy flushing through the skin, the subtle shimmer of their cellularity like evening lights among poplar leaves, while the infinite points of their attention roved and coursed robustly in weatherlike patterns and so rapidly and in so many directions that the patterns became intricately confused and comingled. In the end, intelligibility dispearse and the child as I knew them died" (Horst, 2022, p. 44)