People often say the EU is something completely new. The last completely new political form, advancing on those identified by Aristotle, was totalitarianism. I don’t think the EU is anything new, so much as it is a mess. Totalitarianism was distinct quickly. EU still blurry.
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True. I’d forgotten that. I don’t see myself as “Deleuzian”. I just happened to read a book & ideas formed. About 7yrs ago I worked on a project to do with natural disasters & I had this vision of a “walking city” modelled on Pripyat’s evacuated people. Influences my thought now.
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D&G is hippie nonsense imo, but it seems inescapable nowadays
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As with a lot of contemporary French philosophers, they should be read as creative non-fiction not as straight philosophy or political analysis. It’s another way of seeing, and ultimately essential due to the theatrical nature of politics itself.
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