Deleuze

I CONSIDER THAT HAVING AN IDEA, IN ANY CASE, IS NOT ON THE ORDER OF COMMUNICATION... PRIMARILY, COMMUNICATION IS THE TRANSMISSION AND PROPAGATION OF INFORMATION. INFORMATION IS A SET OF IMPERATIVES, SLOGANS, DIRECTIONS. WHEN YOU ARE INFORMED, YOU ARE TOLD WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE... WE ARE NOT ASKED TO BELIEVE BUT TO BEHAVE AS IF WE DID...

COUNTER-INFORMATION ONLY BECOMES REALLY EFFECTIVE WHEN IT IS -- AND IT IS BY NATURE -- OR BECOMES AN ACT OF RESISTANCE... A WORK OF ART HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COMMUNICATION. A WORK OF ART DOES NOT CONTAIN THE LEAST BIT OF INFORMATION. IN CONTRAST, THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL AFFINITY BETWEEN A WORK OF ART AND AN ACT OF RESISTANCE...

THE PEOPLE ARE MISSING MEANS THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL AFFINITY BETWEEN A WORK OF ART AND A PEOPLE THAT DOES NOT YET EXIST IS NOT, WILL NEVER BE CLEAR. THERE IS NO WORK OF ART THAT DOES NOT CALL ON A PEOPLE WHO DOES NOT YET EXIST.