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Manuel DeLanda – “The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze”, Lecture at The European Graduate School (Switzerland, 2007): Available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqisvKSuA70

“[Deleuze] studied very carefully Non-Human Expressivity (…) the real Otherness which is Geology, Chemistry, Biology. So Deleuze´s Theory of Expressivity in ´The Geology of Morals´ [a chapter of ´A Thousands Platôs´, v.1] begins by saying everything, even Inorganic creatures, expresses themselves: a Crystal expresses its identity in its form, in its way of interacting with light, in its way of bouncing rays of light, and refracting, and reflecting rays of light; regardless of whether there is a human holding this Crystal and producing a rainbow, the very Crystal itself could refract that ray of light, produce a rainbow and express itself; even Atoms, in their humble being, express their identity: when a Atom of Hydrogen, or an Atom of Hellion, or an Atom of Carbon interacts with radiation, he leaves a fingerprint of their identify over that radiation: astrophysics can take photographs of that fingerprint and identify (…)”

* “Mille Plateaux” foi publicado, na Paris de 1980, por Guattari & Deleuze