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Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" (Part 2/4)

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Signification and Interpretation Are Two Diseases of the Earth

In their words, significance and interpretsis interpretation are two diseases of the of the earth. The signified is not some kind of real thing behind the signifier but it only enters this particular chain of signification as a signifier that rejuvenates the original signifier which it is meant to give life to. So we have what they call a redundancy of signs, a kind of over coating, which the despot does through de territorialization.

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