Marc Anton
@drmarcanton.bsky.social
Lecturer in culture, media, and philosophy. Interests: ecology, process studies, neomaterialism, posthumanism. Admin, Deleuze-Foucault @ FB: http://bit.ly/3oqbyPG
Nikola Tesla's remark here (from a 1931 NYT interview celebrating his 75th birthday) aligns with Bergson and Deleuze in seeing reality as continuous change and denying stable individuality and resemblance, though it leans more toward mechanistic determinism than their creative visions of becoming.
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Nikola Tesla's remark here (from a 1931 NYT interview celebrating his 75th birthday) aligns with Bergson and Deleuze in seeing reality as continuous change and denying stable individuality and resemblance, though it leans more toward mechanistic determinism than their creative visions of becoming.
"A world market extends to the ends of the earth before passing into the galaxy: even the skies become horizontal."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
June 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"A world market extends to the ends of the earth before passing into the galaxy: even the skies become horizontal."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 97)
Canetti (1943/1978): "I cannot become modest; too many things burn me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me. [...] I want to feel everything in me before I think it."
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canetti (1943/1978): "I cannot become modest; too many things burn me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me. [...] I want to feel everything in me before I think it."
June 25... The day Blade Runner arrived and Foucault departed.
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
June 25... The day Blade Runner arrived and Foucault departed.
"The essential quality of poetry is that it makes a new effort of attention, and 'discovers' a new world within the known world."
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
May 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"The essential quality of poetry is that it makes a new effort of attention, and 'discovers' a new world within the known world."
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
—D.H. Lawrence
('Chaos in Poetry,' 1928)
The successor to Nietzsche's typewriter . . .
May 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The successor to Nietzsche's typewriter . . .
"We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it.
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
May 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it.
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes.
Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero."
—Deleuze and Guattari
(What is Philosophy?, 1991/1994: 169-170)
"The greatest possible poet is—the nervous system.
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
May 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The greatest possible poet is—the nervous system.
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
Inventor of everything—or say, rather, the only poet."
—Paul Valéry
(Analects: Collected Works, Vol 14, 1970: 541)
"Schizo-analysis can be done anywhere, anytime, with anyone, without a contract, without transference."
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
May 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Schizo-analysis can be done anywhere, anytime, with anyone, without a contract, without transference."
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
—Deleuze
('Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Interview on Anti-Oedipus with Raymond Bellour', 1973/2020: 239; trans. Ames Hodges)
Might have to steal this line . . .
May 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Might have to steal this line . . .
McLuhan '58:
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
May 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
McLuhan '58:
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
"[I]n the 1840's when the telegraph was in a very early phase, Edgar Allan Poe [...] invented ... the symbolist poem and the detective story]. [...] It has taken us 100 years from then to realize that the meaning of the electronic revolution is a 'Do-it-yourself movement.'"
In a strange twist of kinship, McLuhan's transatlantic sparring partner, Raymond Williams, once wrote: "Where poets run, scholars follow." If they'd managed to get past their differences, I suspect they'd have found they had much in common. For starters, they both followed poets around.
April 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In a strange twist of kinship, McLuhan's transatlantic sparring partner, Raymond Williams, once wrote: "Where poets run, scholars follow." If they'd managed to get past their differences, I suspect they'd have found they had much in common. For starters, they both followed poets around.
"The last fifty years brought a different vibration through inventions of telephones, radios, television. What has happened to artificial things has happened to the body. The movements are essentially the same, but the timing is different."
—Martha Graham (1937)
—Martha Graham (1937)
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The last fifty years brought a different vibration through inventions of telephones, radios, television. What has happened to artificial things has happened to the body. The movements are essentially the same, but the timing is different."
—Martha Graham (1937)
—Martha Graham (1937)
Montaigne, 1588:
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
March 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Montaigne, 1588:
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
('On Vanity', Selected Essays, 1943: 261; trans. D.M. Frame)
Lacan (1967): "M. Deleuze ... writes on masochism undoubtedly the best text that has ever been written! [...] [T]his text really anticipates everything that I am, now, going to have effectively to say about it... [All] the analytic texts [must be] remade in this new perspective."
March 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lacan (1967): "M. Deleuze ... writes on masochism undoubtedly the best text that has ever been written! [...] [T]his text really anticipates everything that I am, now, going to have effectively to say about it... [All] the analytic texts [must be] remade in this new perspective."
Heisenberg:
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
March 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Heisenberg:
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
"If harmony in a society depends on the common interpretation of the 'one', of the unity behind the multitude of phenomena, the language of the poets may be more important than that of the scientists."
(The Athens Meeting 1964; published in 1966: 42)
Who is the author?
Stengers:
"He [Galileo] must invent the means of conquering the skepticism that is always a priori the 'normal response'; he must invent the means of having his fiction recognized as not just one fiction among others." (1997: 156)
Stengers:
"He [Galileo] must invent the means of conquering the skepticism that is always a priori the 'normal response'; he must invent the means of having his fiction recognized as not just one fiction among others." (1997: 156)
March 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Who is the author?
Stengers:
"He [Galileo] must invent the means of conquering the skepticism that is always a priori the 'normal response'; he must invent the means of having his fiction recognized as not just one fiction among others." (1997: 156)
Stengers:
"He [Galileo] must invent the means of conquering the skepticism that is always a priori the 'normal response'; he must invent the means of having his fiction recognized as not just one fiction among others." (1997: 156)
McLuhan (c. 1952): "[The Mechanical Bride] is really a new form of science fiction, with ads and comics cast as characters. Since my object is to show the community in action rather than prove anything, it can indeed be regarded as a new kind of novel.'"
March 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
McLuhan (c. 1952): "[The Mechanical Bride] is really a new form of science fiction, with ads and comics cast as characters. Since my object is to show the community in action rather than prove anything, it can indeed be regarded as a new kind of novel.'"
The founder effect: McLuhan sensed the medium, Media Studies read the message.
March 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The founder effect: McLuhan sensed the medium, Media Studies read the message.
Extracts from Whitehead on Education (🧵1/8)
"Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge." (The Organisation of Thought, 1917: 9)
"Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge." (The Organisation of Thought, 1917: 9)
March 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Extracts from Whitehead on Education (🧵1/8)
"Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge." (The Organisation of Thought, 1917: 9)
"Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge." (The Organisation of Thought, 1917: 9)
A. Watts (1951): "Struggle as we may, 'fixing' will never make sense out of change. [...] [T]he impossible task of making fixity out of flux. [...] The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. [...] The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance."
March 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A. Watts (1951): "Struggle as we may, 'fixing' will never make sense out of change. [...] [T]he impossible task of making fixity out of flux. [...] The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. [...] The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance."
"[T]he concentric with its endless intersection of planes is necessary for insight. In fact, it is the technique of insight, and as such is necessary for media study, since no medium has its meaning or existence alone, but only in constant interplay with other media."
—McLuhan (1964/2003: 43)
—McLuhan (1964/2003: 43)
March 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"[T]he concentric with its endless intersection of planes is necessary for insight. In fact, it is the technique of insight, and as such is necessary for media study, since no medium has its meaning or existence alone, but only in constant interplay with other media."
—McLuhan (1964/2003: 43)
—McLuhan (1964/2003: 43)
It's only just dawned on me that Bergson, Tesla, and Pessoa were the same guy. Those outfit changes must have been tiring.
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It's only just dawned on me that Bergson, Tesla, and Pessoa were the same guy. Those outfit changes must have been tiring.
Deleuze and Guattari's proto iCamera machine:
"We can even propose the following law: the more circles there are around a hole, the more the bordering effect acts to increase the surface over which the hole slides and to give that surface a force of capture." (ATP, 182)
"We can even propose the following law: the more circles there are around a hole, the more the bordering effect acts to increase the surface over which the hole slides and to give that surface a force of capture." (ATP, 182)
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Deleuze and Guattari's proto iCamera machine:
"We can even propose the following law: the more circles there are around a hole, the more the bordering effect acts to increase the surface over which the hole slides and to give that surface a force of capture." (ATP, 182)
"We can even propose the following law: the more circles there are around a hole, the more the bordering effect acts to increase the surface over which the hole slides and to give that surface a force of capture." (ATP, 182)