"Once we are taken out of our selves and the generalities we habitually impose on the world, we can perceive the world in its intensity, as a proliferating expanse of differences that we necessarily ‘forget’ in order to live with distinct persons and things."
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Claire Colebrook: Understanding Deleuze
"In Anti-Oedipus Deleuze & Guattari refer to this production in the first instance as the connection of flows. The difference between one flow and another, or one becoming and another, can be understood in terms of cut and connection. A plant turns to the sun; an insect flies to a plant; a human body hunts an animal — each connection is the becoming of a flow of life, but it is not an isolated becoming; it becomes only through connection with another becoming. It is this connection or synthesis that allows two intensities to be ‘cut’ from the flow of life. A mouth seeks a breast; it must connect but it must also meet with resistance. So a flow continues and becomes only in being connected, but any connection also cuts into the first flow. The two intensities — mouth and breast — become only in being connected. The flow of life, the flow that we imagine to be at the origin of all these specific intensive flows, does not actually exist; it is the virtual whole of interconnecting and interrupting intensive flows. These intensities emerge from difference itself."
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