The Heightened Intensity Which the Processes of Becoming Inevitably Entail
A new philosophical concept, say an alternative view of subjectivity, or a new system of representation, a new sound or an alternative image produces a break-through in old mental habits. What is produced is a concept and affect that break through the established frame, illuminating a territory by providing orientation co-ordinates; made visible/thinkable/sayable/hearable are forces, passions and affects which were not perceived before. Thus the question of creation is ultimately technological: it is about how. It is also geological: it is about where and in which territory. Ultimately, it is ethical: it is about where to set the limits and how to sustain the processes of change without hurting self or other. … The issue about intensity is how to endure it, sustaining the altered states and the heightened intensity which the processes of becoming inevitably entail.
~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 179
