Tools of the Trade

Pitchpole, Interface

1953—02

Continental islands are accidental, derived islands. They are separated from a continent, born of disarticulation, erosion, fracture; they survive the absorption of what once contained them. Oceanic islands are originary, essential islands. Some are formed from coral reefs and display a genuine organism.

Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze

Magnetics

Berth, Interface

1953—04

Continental islands serve as a reminder that the sea is on top of the earth, taking advantage of the slightest sagging in the highest structures; oceanic islands, that the earth is still there, under the sea, gathering its strength to punch through to the surface.

Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze