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bergmans-ghost:

“What, do you imagine that I would take so much trouble and so much pleasure in writing, do you think that I would keep so persistently to my task, if I were not preparing – with a rather shaky hand – a labyrinth into which I can venture, into which I can move my discourse… in which I can lose myself and appear at last to eyes that I will never have to meet again. I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face.”
-Foucault, The Archaeology of knowledge

”
…when the face is effaced, when the faciality traits disappear, we can
be sure that we have entered another regime, other zones infinitely
muter and more imperceptible where subterranean becomings-animal occur,
becomings-molecular, nocturnal deterritorializations over-spilling the
limits of the signifying system.”

-Deleuze&Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

“…cultural time is taken up with
forms which, at the psychological level, mirror people back to
themselves in the most banal possible kind of manifest image. The
question now is whether a certain kind of defacialization can be
recovered—whether a practical, not merely theoretical, eliminativist
project can be resumed, and whether we can start getting out of our
faces again.”  
-Mark Fisher, Practical Eliminativism

“You scrape away your face and step into the dark…”
-Nick Land, Meat