There is no absolute ear; the problem is to have an impossible one--making audible forces that are not audible in themselves. In philosophy, it is a question of an impossible thought, making thinkable through a very complex material of thought forces that are unthinkable.

Such statements -- though boggling -- are rather exciting, well at least to me. Two Regimes is a collected works volume, a bin for minor pieces, prefaces and interviews. One has to be familiar with Deleuze (especially with his famed collaborations with Guattari) to find much traction. There are some neutral selections that could enchant the novice, in particular a colloquium on Proust where Deleuze enchants while Roland Barthes comes across as bit of a dick. Deleuze is rather moving in his pieces on Guattari and Foucault, he notes on the latter that books of Foucault provide context but that is only half of the project, the other half is provided in the interviews. I would like to think the same applies to Deleuze himself. ( )

especially:

Schizophrenia and Society
The Interpretation of Utterances
The Rise of the Social
The Complaint and the Body
May '68 didn't Happen
What is the Creative Act?


but really it's all good ( )