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Book Review Craig Lundy (2012) History and Becoming: Deleuze's Philosophy of Creativity, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press As is well known, Deleuze and Guattari are notable for their eschewal of the word `or' in relation to potential conceptual and creative encounters. It is always a question of `and' as a means of propagating difference and becoming through a combination of rupture and affirmation, thereby circumventing the capture of signification, recognition and representation, binary structures which stymie the production of new subjectivities. It thus seems anomalous to discover in the Deleuzian canon as well as Deleuze and Guattari's later collaborations a stubborn predilection for opposing history and becoming as mutually incompatible, largely because the former is always identified with a capturing, ex post facto `historicism' while the latter, because of its trans-situational potential, is the very stuff (as indeterminate excess) of philosophy. In Negotiations, for example, Deleuze unequivocally states that `Becoming isn't part of history; history amounts only to the set of preconditions, however recent, that one leaves behind in order to "become", that is, to create something new' (Deleuze 1995: 171). A Thousand Plateaus continues the polemic, aligning history with a syntagmatic teleology: `All history does is to translate
Deleuze Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2014
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