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 * Sandbox for the Semiotics of Deleuze and Guattari

Working through Massumi's presentation in chapter one.

Nietzsche and Nietzsche and Philosophy

 * Sense, force, interpretation, pluralism, essence, evaluation, genealogy

"The sense of something is its relation to the force which takes possession of it, the value of something is the hierarchy of forces which are expressed in it as a complex phenomenon."

"In Nietzsche the essential relation of one force to another is never conceived of as a negative element in the essence. In its relation with the other the force which makes itself obeyed does not deny the other or that which it is not, it affirms its own difference and enjoys this difference. [...] For the speculative element of negation, opposition or contradiction Nietzsche substitutes the practical element of difference, the object of affirmation and enjoyment."

"Every force is related to others and it either obeys or commands. What defines a body is this relation between dominant and dominated forces. Every relationship of forces constitutes a body--whether it is chemical, biological, social or political. Any two forces, being unequal, constitute a body as soon as they enter into a relationship."