Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography

Scientific thought undertakes the search for constants in the mor-

phogenesis of the world. But how can we explain the unforeseeable,

the irruption of the new, of mutation?

This is the central question to which Gilles Deleuze’s thought offers

an answer.

I’ve tried in all my books to discover the nature of events; it’s a

philosophical concept, the only one capable of ousting the verb ‘to

be’ and attributes. (Negotiations, 141)

And it is here, around the concept of the event, that we can also find

the exit door from the multi-planar labyrinth-thought of Gilles Deleuze.

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