ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a provisional reconstruction of Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of corporeality in A Thousand Plateaus—a text that could be regarded as their (anti-)opus—in terms of the flatness, surfaces, intensities, investments, i.e., in the terms other than those provided by dichotomous thought, capable of outstripping, overturning, or exceeding binary logics. Subject and object are series of flows, energies, movements, strata, segments, organs, intensities—fragments capable of being linked together or severed in potentially infinite ways other than those which congeal them into identities. Destratification, freeing lines of flight, the production of connections, the movements of intensities and flows through and beyond the Body without Organs, is thus a direction or movement rather than a fixed state or final position. Indiscernibility, imperceptibility, and impersonality remain the end points of becoming, the immanent orientation or internal impetus, the freeing of absolutely minuscule micro-intensities to the nth degree.
