“What we need is to replace the reified generalities with concrete assemblages: many bazaars, many regional trading areas, many national markets… each with a date of birth and (potentially) a date of death. The best way to deal with this problem is always to think statistically, dealing always with populations and with how variation is distributed in a population. Thus, the duality “male-female” can easily be eliminated if we take a large population and check how secondary sexual characteristics are distributed: all of them, except for the capacity to bear children, form two overlapping statistical distributions. The duality emerges when one ignores the zone of overlap and reifies the averages.”

Maneul De Landa in New MaterialismInterviews and Cartographies (via neutralnatura)

(Source: infinity-on-trial)