John RajchmanThinkers

An Affect is an impersonal, even inhuman emotion which does not emerge within the subject but passes through him.

An Affect is impersonal, even inhuman.

Affirmation is never to affirm a proposition or thesis about life, but on the contrary, to engage in another nonassertional style of thinking to affirm is then to disburden or 'lighten,' to attain the 'innocence' of other possibilities.

Affirmation is not to assert or assume, but to lighten, to unground, to release the fresh air of other possibilities, to combat stupidity and cliche.

Becoming is never a 'history' with fixed starting and ending points. Rather, itself the imitation or representation of nothing, it shifts and complicates the very terms of identification.

A Becoming is the imitation or representation of nothing. It shifts and complicates the very terms of identification.

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Difference is not to be confused with distinction, opposition, or contradiction. : Two things may be said to 'differ freely' when, fitting in no class, they fall together in a kind of indefinite neighboring.

Nihilism is affirmation that is directed. Affirmation requires trust in a world and what may yet transpire in it beyond what we are 'warranted' to assert.

A Percept is that which goes beyond the subjects that pass through them. Affects are impersonal, even inhuman.

Philosophy does not have origins, but, a 'mileu', or 'atmosphere.' It could have started elsewhere.

Sensation is in things themselves. It is a kind of aesthetic experimentation.

Sensation is not determined by representation but by aesthetic experimentation. Sensations are 'in things themselves'.