ABSTRACT
Intensive difference is not external, nor rational or probabilistic: it proceeds by reciprocal attractions and captures. We will discuss consistency operations at work in disparate series environments and their actualization in unexpected individuations. We will discuss in particular the virtual/actual double aspect of differenciation at work in the ‘material–strengths’ couple, a concept employed by Deleuze to describe musical spaces and times without identity (cf. “Rendre audibles des forces non-audibles par elles-mêmes”, Le temps musical, Ircam 1978, in Deux régimes de fous. Textes et entretiens, 1975–1995, D. Lapoujade (ed.), Paris, Minuit, 2003). Direct ‘material–strengths’ relations—active in the thought-music corpus—cover all fields of thought and open new connections. The production of a heterogeneous transversality, significant in Deleuze’s and Guattari’s writings beginning with A Thousand Plateaus (1980) and in subsequent works, is determined in the field of processual and subjectivating creativity. Singular space-times and autonomous signs practices redistribute the order of sensation in view to form free enunciations: they produce a difference able to confront the irreality of media and capitalistic signs regimes.
