ABSTRACT
Though Deleuze’s individual works, and those written in collaboration with Guattari, engage a wide variety of themes, disciplines and philosophers, the central hinge of the system is the ontology of difference as seminally worked out by Deleuze in Difference and Repetition and worked through in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. Understanding the becoming of this differential ontology through various analytic and theoretical plateaus is a challenge since the transformation of many central concepts seem to observe the Deleuzian dynamic of repetition and difference. This chapter explores the nuances involved in this transformation, while at the same time dilating certain important conceptual and metaphysical nodes.
