“Concepts are like multiple waves, rising and falling, but the plane of immanence is the single wave that rolls them up and unrolls them. … Concepts are the archipelago or skeletal frame, a spinal column rather than a skull, whereas the plane is the breath that suffuses the separate parts.”
“it is a [the?] plane of immanence that constitutes the absolute ground of philosophy, its earth or deterritorialization, the foundation on which it creates its concepts. … The problem of philosophy is to acquire a consistency without losing the infinite into which thought plunges.”
Thanks to Karla Stingerstein (see her series of Deleuzian artworks here), Rob Shields/Space and Culture (and Fiona Banner), and Melissa Wong. Quotes from D & G, What is Philosophy?
historical objects to be protected