A brief analysis of “Unlocked” (2023): a film about death, consumption, transformation, and horror in our present-day technological landscape.
All tagged deleuze
Day 555: You Know Nothing About Everything
Certainty is inversely proportional to knowledge.
Day 548: Exhalation Is (Not) A Metaphor for Dying
‘While we go with the stream, we are unconscious of its rapid course; but when we begin to stem it ever so little, it makes itself felt.’ Fénelon
Day 546: Fear Dissolves in Truth
If you see through fear, see that what you thought was a snake is really a rope, what you imagined was a beast is really a frightened person, you create space for life to sprout new growth, a possibility for change.
Day 545: Dying into One Awareness
‘Nietzsche says that what is important is not the news that God is dead, but the time this news takes to bear fruit.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 530: What Matters Most is How Well One Emerges From a Dream
‘There is no work of art that does not indicate an opening for life, a path between the cracks. Everything I have written has been vitalistic, at least I hope so, and constitutes a theory of signs and the event.’ Gilles Deleuze
Day 526: In Spirit, Body Acts
‘To turn toward does not imply merely to turn away, but to confront, to lose one’s way, to move aside.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 525: You Can (Not) Go Back
‘While we go with the stream, we are unconscious of its rapid course; but when we begin to stem it ever so little, it makes itself felt.’ Fénelon
Day 524: The Heart Tells Itself What to Do
‘One does not conform to a model, one straddles the right horse.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 501: Becoming Who You Are
‘The purpose of nature is to extinguish itself, and to break through its rind of immediate and sensuous being to consume itself like a Phoenix in order to emerge from this externality rejuvenated as Spirit.’ Hegel
Day 485: 27 Apr 2022, Wednesday
‘As long as you fight a symptom, it will become worse. If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence—the very moment you get in touch with yourself—growth begins, integration begins.’ Fritz Perls
Day 484: 26 Apr 2022, Tuesday
Done is what must be done.
Day 480: 20 Apr 2022, Wednesday
‘Arrive at the magic formula we seek: PLURALISM = MONISM—via all the dualisms that are the enemy, an entirely necessary enemy, the furniture we are forever rearranging.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 477: 17 Apr 2022, Sunday
‘One does not conform to a model, one straddles the right horse.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 466: 5 Apr 2022, Tuesday
‘The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.’ Gilles Deleuze
Day 464: 3 Apr 2022, Sunday
Nothing is ‘straight’ insofar as a line is only straight to the degree that it turns away from (turns, curves, evades, escapes) queerness, eccentricity, living ‘outside the line(s).’
Day 457: 22 Mar 2022, Tuesday
‘Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.’ Rumi
Day 453: 18 Mar 2022, Friday
‘Change the way one perceives and change all memory.’ Old TOPI Proverb
Day 452: 17 Mar 2022, Thursday
‘You can’t be one wolf, you’re always eight or nine, six or seven. Not six or seven wolves all by yourself all at once, but one wolf among others, with five or six others.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 451: 16 Mar 2022, Wednesday
‘Returning is everything but everything is returned in a single moment.’ Gilles Deleuze