ABSTRACT
Analyzing texts in a particular way that shows them in a new perspective is, of course, a form of intervention, and an active participation in contested and contesting discursive practices. The analyses of the texts that explain the relations between diversity and gender in the first part of Genealogies and Conceptual Belonging suggest a notion of generation and continuity, and evoke narratives of overcoming and replacement of the old by the new. Referring to Bergson in Difference and Repetition Deleuze explains the relation between present and past as a process of actualization of the present from the virtual multiplicity of the past. The relationship between past, present and future in this notion of time as duration is not linear. It differs from the image of the pearls on the time-necklace, which neatly become present one after the other, one present replacing another in linear extrapolation.
