‘If at any point I thought of this refreshing in terms of regaining a “concreteness” of experience, I was quickly disabused of the notion. Take movement. When a body is in motion, it does not coincide with itself. It coincides with its own transition: its own variation. The range of variations it can be implicated in is not present in any given movement, much less in any position it passes through. In motion, a body is in an immediate, unfolding relation to its own nonpresent potential to vary. That relation, to borrow a phrase from Gilles Deleuze, is real but abstract.’
‘Here, abstract means: never present in a position, only ever passing. This is an abstractness pertaining to the transitional immediacy of a real relation-that of a body to its own indeterminacy (its openness to an elsewhere and otherwise than it is, in any here and now).’ (Massumi, 2002 pp. 4-5)
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