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>>12675584
yes, Deleuze agrees that paranoia is rhizomatic to an extent--its ability to find its paranoid fantasies everywhere shows how it operates as a BwO (i.e. rhizomatically). However, this line of flight is one that leads back to the regime it initially escapes. Paranoia is created by the schizophrenic process, but only when the schizo process regresses to encode itself on the body of the despot. Instead of a schizophrenic becoming that abolishes all identity, the paranoiac find his own identity as a sufferer of a grand conspiracy everywhere he turns. Whereas the schizophrenic deterritorializes the codes around him to destroy his identities, the paranoiac only deterritorializes the codes around him so he can re-code them into the paranoid fantasy in which his identity as a sufferer always remains the same. D&G really abhor paranoia, since it is the worst of both worlds between the dangers of fascism and schizophrenia. While schizophrenia can be liberating, its danger is that it will territorialize you into a worse situation than before, which is what happens in paranoia. Instead of following a line of flight, you suffer all the dangers of schizophrenia only to end up in a fascistic servitude to a symbolic order that demands your complete devotion.

They talk a lot about this in chapter 4 of Anti-Oedipus. The diagram here shows what you end up with when the schizophrenic process reencodes itself at various stage of the development of the socius.

>>12063775

How do I live deleuzian?