Plateau

From Capitalism and Schizophrenia

1. “In Deleuze and Guattari a plateau is reached when circumstances combine to bring an activity to a pitch of intensity that is not automatically dissipated in a climax. The heightening of energies is sustained long enough to leave a kind of afterimage of its dynamism that can be reactivated or injected into other activities creating a fabric of intensive states between which any number of connecting routes could exist.” (Brian Massumi in “Translator’s foreword”, ATPC xiv)

2. A chapter (or section) of A Thousand Plateaus that "can be read starting anywhere and can be related to any other plateaus" (ATPC 24).