Make Us Hear Sounds That Have Never Before Been Heard
I also think that [Deleuze’s project of philosophy] is an aesthetic mode of absolute immersion of one’s sensibility into the field of forces~music, colour, light, speed, temperature, intensity~which one is attempting to capture. Deleuze argues that painters make visible forces that previously were not, much as composers make us hear sounds that have never before been heard. Similarly, philosophers can make new concepts thinkable. It comes down to a question of style, but style here is no mere rhetorical device but a set of material co-ordinates. Once these are assembled and composed in a sustainable and enduring manner that allows for the expression of the affectivity and the forces involved, these co-ordinates thus trigger the process of becoming.
~Rosi Braidotti
“How to Endure Intensity: Towards a Sustainable Nomadic Subject” ~ Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari ~ Ed. Patricia Pisters ~ Amsterdam : Amsterdam UP, 2001 / pgs 177-8
