ABSTRACT

Deleuze defines philosophy as a theory of multiplicities that refer to no subject as preliminary unity. The laws of a society or group or language or individual character, considered in their becoming, are defined by variation, mutation—how they come apart and go together again, informing new composites, new assemblages, the way they change nature with every division or connection. The real of time has nothing to do with the movement of the present that passes, nor with anything given in the form of intuition. The ideal linkages of singularities are said to be non-localizable because they are liaisons of time between times, the becoming or genesis of time, which is rhythm. Chaos is the a priori of time, the inseparability, indiscernibility of memory and forgetting in the infinite. Anarchy means without governing principle or foundation. The repetition of the future has nothing whatsoever to do with any return to the past or memory.