“Line of flight, a term developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, designates an infinitesimal possibility of escape; it is the elusive moment when change happens, as it was bound to, when a threshold between two paradigms is crossed. ‘Line of flight’ is Brian Massumi’s English translation of the French ‘ligne de fuite,’ where ‘fuite’ means the act of fleeing or eluding but also flowing, leaking. Gender dysphoria is one such moment of leakage, when the face you see in the mirror is not a face for you anymore, when a supposedly familiar landscape is blurred by the transposition of gender-signifying marks from one millieu to another, when the socially determined coordinates of familiarity-identity-gender no longer add up to a legible (legitimate) pattern, when materiality itself escapes the frame of representation, because this frame is built on gender binarism.”
“We thought the most formidable enemy was psychoanalysis because it reduced all forms of desire to a particular formation, the family. But there is another danger, of which psychoanalysis is but one point of application: it is the reduction of all modes of semiotization. What I call semiotization is what happens with perception, with movement in space, with singing, dancing, mimicry, caressing, contact, everything that concerns the body. All these modes of semiotization are being reduced to the dominant language, the language of power which coordinates its syntactic regulation with speech production in its totality. What one learns at school or in the university is not essentially a content or data, but a behaviotal model adapted to certain social castes.”
— Molecular Revolutions, Felix Guattari (via morphodyke)
"Pro-activist anarchists are transfixed by the tableaux of street action but they cannot be bothered to ask themselves whether what is happening is achieving anything more than the spectacle itself; what they want is the reproduction of confrontation — the recorded display of resistance becomes the end in itself, it is a fetish, it has a cyclical temporality — check out any issue of Counter Information to confirm this, it’s raison d’etre lies in an assumption of the accumulationary significance of tiny uncheckable snippets of info. Have the editors of this and other similar newsheets ever considered what the shelf-life is of their information? In what way do the struggles of the past still count? Are they part of a movement to change, a brick placed on a revolutionary wall that is slowly being built across the world by those fighting their bosses, or is each act’s significance merely local in both place and time? A Zapatista says, ‘any struggle that wins anywhere in the world is like a breath of oxygen to us.’ We do not believe him."
Monsieur Dupont.Anarchists must say what only anarchists can say. [Monsieur Dupont’s New Year Message] (via left-destabilizer)
why do you freaks think the queen of england is some adorable little grandma, she lives in a fucking palace and was monarch during england’s colonial rule of half of africa. she has immense power and wealth (directly stolen from imperial holdings across the world & her own people) because of the coincidence of her birth. she’s not cute. i dont care about her color coordinated umbrellas or her pet corgis. what the fuck yall.
