Creation and Anarchy

Why does the search for the element susceptible to being developed fascinate me? Because if we follow this methodological principle all the way, we inevitably end up at a point where it is not possible to distinguish between what is ours and what belongs to the author we are reading. Reaching this impersonal zone of indifference, in which every proper name, every copyright, and every claim to originality fade away, fills me with joy.

something that has remained—or has willingly been left—unspoken and that needs to be found and seized

“capacity for development”

After many years spent reading, writing, and studying, it happens at times that we understand what is our special way—if there is one—of proceeding in thought and research.

to resist always means to free a potential of life that was imprisoned or offended

opposing a force or an external threat

What Is the Act of Creation?
The title “What Is the Act of Creation?” evokes that of a lecture given by Gilles Deleuze in Paris in March 1987. Deleuze defined the act of creation as an “act of resistance.” Resistance to death, first of all, but also resistance to the paradigm of information, through which power is exercised in what he calls “control societies,” to distinguish them from the disciplinary societies analyzed by Foucault. Each act of creation resists something—for example, Deleuze says, Bach’s music is an act of resistance against the separation of the sacred from the profane.

creative activity assumes the form of a true and proper ritual, released from every social signification and effective through the simple fact of being celebrated.

the work-artist-operation machine?

those temples of absurdity that are the museums of contemporary art.