“Second, we make no distinction between man and nature: the human essence of nature and the natural essence of man become one within nature in the form of production or industry, just as they do within the life of man as a species. Industry is then no longer considered from the extrinsic point of view of utility, but rather from the point of view of its fundamental identity with nature as production of man and by man.”

—  Gilles Deleuze

The Desiring Machine
Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1977)

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