ABSTRACT
Deleuze and Guattari’s work is distinct in contemporary philosophy in a multitude of striking ways. Here, however, I shall concentrate on the relationships between three strands in their work. First is their pursuit of an ontological materialism, a materialism that refuses the image of matter foisted upon it by transcendence, and that seeks to exempt itself from Georges Bataille’s charge that most erstwhile philosophical materialisms have remained within the conceptual structure of idealism by giving in to ‘an obsession with the ideal form of matter’.1
