Buddhism and 21st century Western culture. This episode is an Introduction to Lines of Flight: Contemporary Buddhist Culture. The title is taken from a term invented by Deleuze and Guattari from their book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Line of flight, a term developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus (1987), designates an infinitesimal possibility of escape; it is the elusive moment when change happens, as it was bound to, when a threshold between two paradigms is crossed...The philosophy at work in A Thousand Plateaus is, according to Deleuze and Guattari, a “geophilosophy”: a system with no verticality, no transcendence, and, most of all, no binarism — only space, a perpetually redesigned space, structured by various and contingent power apparatuses.(TSQ Journal, 2014).