(on the artificiality of the real): manifesto

we live today in the age of partial objects, bricks that have been shattered to bits, and leftovers. we no longer believe in the myth of the existence of fragments that, like pieces of an antique statue, are merely waiting for the last one to be turned up, so that they may all be glued back together to create a unity that is precisely the same as the original unity. we no longer believe in a primordial totality that once existed, or in a final totality that awaits us at some future date. we no longer believe in the dull gray outlines of a dreary, colorless dialectic of evolution, aimed at forming a harmonious whole out of heterogeneous bits by rounding off their rough edges. we believe only in totalities that are peripheral.

deleuze and guattari, anti-oedipus