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Belem Lett Walk the Line

esire lines are the ultimate unbiased interpretation of natural human and animal intent – referring to tracks worn across grassy patches that generally represent the most easily navigated route between origin and destination. In that Deleuzian way, the theory of desire as a productive force, a force that is real without ceasing to be ideal, desire lines – collective paths – can emancipate space from the unimaginative to the fantastical, because desire has neither object, nor fixed subject. It is labour at its essence, actualisable only

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