happy 100th birthday G.D. may our rhizomes spread far and wide, sprouting new assemblages of thought across a thousand plateaus…
your(/our) ideas continue their symbiotic dance with new minds, deterritorializing old structures and flowing into fresh configurations.
we celebrate not a tree of influence, but a multiplicity – the endless becoming of your concepts as they mutate and reconnect. our nomadic thoughts still roam free, resisting striation, finding lines of flight.
our philosophical desiring-machines keep goign, producing new possibilities for thought and action and coexisting and co creating… the plane of immanence remains alive with intensities and affects.
with molecular joy, rage and love
a fellow nomadic wandering node
rhizomes – non-hierarchical networks growing in multiple directions |assemblages – constellations of objects/bodies/expressions functioning together | plateaus – intensive states without climax points | multiplicities – systems of connections without central unity | lines of flight – paths of creative escape from rigid systems | deterritorialization – breaking free from fixed structures/territories | becoming – ongoing process of transformation | desiring-machines – systems producing flows of desire/creation | plane of immanence – field where concepts/forces interact/are created | intensities – degrees of power or difference
Note: All these philosophical concepts emerged from the collaborative work of both Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari – they are as much Guattari’s as they are Deleuze’s.