#auto-affection

I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law—we are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody when, in fact, everybody's nobody.

Deleuze’s cogito resolves into a vision of auto-affection more ‘auto’ than ever, folding inside and outside spaces in order to consume both along the fold. […] The subject of the fold, a consciousness more immediate than that of experience, is not sovereign, since it has no outside to reign over. It’s more: it’s all there is.