Reading is an Aspect of Writing: C. Colebrook

"We sense time as that power of difference from which movement, as change rather than just shift of space, is propelled. We tend to impose relations on movements, seeing something as moving from one point to another, but before this relational and ordered whole there are singular movements or variations. A leaf falls and dies, withering and losing colour; this is part of the life and duration of the plant, its own specific rhythm. Elsewhere a bird crosses the sky, migrating in order to breed, and the movement of the bird crosses the movement of the clouds that are about to condense to produce rain. Each movement is not just a change of place within a whole but but a becoming in which the movement is a transformation of the body which moves, a body being nothing other than its movements."

-- Claire Colebrook in Gilles Deleuze

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Notebook Excerpt # 23

There is so much snow. It's relentless now, I don't enjoy it. February. Enough already.

I'm so sad, the light is so surreal. I don't know.
I thought.

Life is so weird. This is the strangest day I've had. The light is so strange.

There's so much snow. Like sheets or curtains of it.

The light is so weird today.

Work, writing, is endless. Endless.

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Reading is an Aspect of Writing: M. M. Waldrop

""Life is based to an incredible degree on its ability to process information ... It stores information. It maps sensory information. And it makes some complex transformations on that information to produce action. [The English biologist Richard] Dawkins has this really nice example. If you take a rock and toss it into the air, it traces out a nice parabola. It's at the mercy of the laws of physics. It can only make a simple response to the forces that are acting on it from outside. But now if you take a bird and throw it into the air, its behaviour is nothing like that. It flies off into the trees somewhere. The same forces are certainly acting on this bird. But there's an awful lot of information processing going on that's responsible for its behaviour. "

--from Complexity, the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Reading is an Aspect of Writing: C. Colebrook

"Opinion, for Deleuze, is the very inertia or failure of thinking. Opinion is a laziness directly opposed to the expansiveness of the philosophical concept. Deleuze and Guattari cite the example of a man who moves from his dislike for a certain kind of cheese to a general claim that the cheese just is offensive. ... It is this tendency of opinion to reduce the difference of the world to being 'just like me' that both weakens the active character of thought and reinforces the modern capitalist prejudice that we are 'all the same' and capable of interacting in one global market [.]"

-- in Gilles Deleuze, by Claire Colebrook