ABSTRACT
This is the kind of writing that synergistically both fuels and creates this madness as methodology. The existence of collaborative writing as method of inquiry and pedagogic practice is currently unusual, unexpected and largely unwritten. Deleuze and Felix Guattari employ and direct this challenge to the establishment and foundation of categories of difference and their setting up of the presence and differentiating practice of 'becoming' (1987). The significance of Deleuze's description of the ambivalences and indeterminacies of his positional stance in relation to his collaborative work with Guattari cannot be underestimated and is central to the conceptualisation of collaborative writing. By approaching collaborative practices within the fluid and transmutating context of an assemblage suggests the need to take into consideration not simply the affective and ethical aspects of human engagements and manifestations but also those possibly unrealised posthuman vectors, forces and energies which have remained latent because previous conceptualisations have not brought them into representational space.
