Brassier's "Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines" is a devastating critique of A Thousand Plateaus. The book essentially fails to bridge the abyss between what is says and does. Just saying.
There are a lot of conceptual innovations in ATP that can be appropriated, transformed and repurposed, but the metaphysical edifice just crumbles at a close scrutiny.
The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday
Crossing the threshold of mythos, domain of puzzles (aporias) is crossing the dangerous threshold of humanity. Plato and Aristotle are tirelessly trying to convince the average-hellenic-man that they should not be afraid of crossing the walled garden of humanity.
Aristotle is absolutely bang on when he writes that sciences are necessary, but only philosophy is totally useless and of going too far (in discord to slavish human nature) for the forbidden fruit (according to poets) that may trigger the wrath of gods (he says poets are wrong).
Oil prices still hovering around 80 USD, despite cataclysmic supply shocks, prove the essentiality of the authorial voice and mythos. This retrospectively demonstrates, despite real innovations, how AI overvaluations are sustained by control over the myths of production.
"Smooth space is occupied by . . . wind and noise, forces, and sonorous and tactile qualities, as in the desert, steppe, or ice. The creaking of ice and the song of the sands."