Friday, May 26, 2006

«Certas teorias são persistentes colete-de-forças»

«Silent thought»

Ignacio Ramonet (in «Silent though», Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2006), citando Gilles Deleuze acerca da visão deste sobre o que fazer com ideias/teorias:

«A theory is exactly like a toolbox. It must serve some purpose. It must work, and not just for its own sake. If there is no one to use it, starting with the theorist, who thus becomes a practitioner, it is either worthless or its time has not yet come. You do not go back to a theory, you make others and there are always more to be made»,

in "Les Intellectuels et le pouvoir", Arc, n° 49, Aix-en-Provence, May 1972.