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Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" (Part 1/4)

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Is There a Consistency Between the Substratums?

No stratum is greater than another. There are substrata to a substratum or two stratum, but these substrata are themselves strata, stratums, stratu. Each substrata is itself astratum, which then has its own substrata - ino ad infinitem ina. And so you have this kind of tension between the stratum embracing itself as what they call the acumenon verses its recognition upon the plane of consistency,. The machinic assemblage is something entirely different from the abstract machine even though it is very closely connected with it.

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