Tuesday, January 09, 2007

becoming-bicycle, or rhizome revisited

Apparently I'm not the only one willing to risk puzzled glances by throwing the bike and the rhizome into the same stream of thought. From a very different sort of blog, comes this reflection on bicycle logic:

In a way the bicycle is a way of committing to the future regardless of whether that leads to ruin. Thinking as if you’re on a bicycle means you have to learn to improvise with the road itself, with the area of thought you’re traversing, while also being unable to forget your body.

Learning to think with cycle logic as opposed to the logic of the automobile. A bio-mechanical way of thinking that does not play into the modern thinking of the post-human. A way of thinking that presents the best of humanity, a humanity more in the earth that does not move but is traversed. A becoming-bicycle of philosophy is a political task of thought.

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