ABSTRACT

The process of playing is much more extensive than what it produces; the making of play is always bigger than what is made and as such requires a different set of conceptual tools that work with formation rather than forms. While systems of logic and representation have their origin in animating life they come to operate outside of the conditions that brought them to life. Deleuze is renowned for changing terms across diverse writings and collaborations and few of the concepts have stable names. For Deleuze, drawing particularly on concepts from Gilbert Simondon, the actual is produced through individuation or intensive morphogenetic processes that move a state of virtuality across a threshold to actuality. Movement is the sole way that organisms have of interacting with the environment. Perception is not an enclosed mind interpreting sensory information but the intentional movement and adjustment of the body in its environment.