ABSTRACT
Deleuze’s insistence on the active, affirmative and constantly renewing nature of thought prompted him to use a variety of philosophers, artists and scientists in order to forge a complex vocabulary and method. Against the notion of transcendence—or the idea that what lies outside thought is some static transcendent object—Deleuze argued for worlds, planes, surfaces or folds. Much of the writing that is now inspired by Deleuze’s thought is—in contrast to this book—far from being explanatory or propositional in style. Everything in Deleuze’s thought comes down to the crucial idea of immanence. (Immanence is a concept in the Deleuzean sense: a way of connecting new ideas and possibilities for thinking. Immanence is also necessarily connected with other Deleuzean concepts, concepts that open up the new style of thought.) Philosophy, art and science need to confront immanence, the difference or flow of life that has no single centre, foundation or outside point from which it might be judged or defined.
