Writing and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" @ben
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