If you free it with too violent an action, if you
blow apart the strata without taking precautions, then instead of
drawing the plane you will be killed, plunged into a black hole, or
even dragged toward catastrophe. Staying stratified-organized,
signified, subjected-is not the worst that can happen: the worst
that can happen is if you throw the strata into demented or
suicidaI collapse, which brings them back down on us heavier
than ever. This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a
stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an
advantageous place on it, find potential movements of de-territorialization,
possible lines of flight, experience them, produce
flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities
segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at aIl
times. Ir is through a meticulous relation with the strata that
one succeeds in freeing lines of flight, causing conjugated flows
to pass and escape and bringing forth continuous intensities for
a BwO. [ ... ]
And how necessary caution is, the art of dosages, since
overdose is a danger. You don't do it with a sledgehammer,
you use a very fine file. You invent self-destructions that have
nothing to do with the death drive. Dismantling the [organism]
has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body
to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits,
conjunctions, levels and thresholds, passages and distributions
of intensity, and territories and de-territorializations measured
with the craft of a surveyor.