Deleuze and Becoming

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Deleuze’s concept of ‘becoming’ provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across Deleuze’s writings, arguing that expressions of becoming(s) appear in two modes of temporality: an appropriation of Nietzsche’s eternal return (the becoming of the event), and Bergsonian duration (the becoming of sensation). Overturning the criticisms launched by Žižek and Badiou, with conceptual encounters between Bergson, Nietzsche, Leibniz, Borges, Klossowski, and Proust, the newly charted concept of double becoming provides a roadmap to the totality of Deleuze’s philosophy. Bankston systematizes Deleuze’s multi-mirrored universe where form and content infinitely refract in a vital kaleidoscope of becoming Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Conceptual History of Becoming in Deleuze Becoming-Bergson Change A rejection of Hegel’s concept of becoming Mapping Bergsonian duration onto becoming Becoming and aesthetic production Where absolute becoming splits from sensory becoming: Memory Sensory becoming and molecular memory Becoming-Nietzsche The innocence of becoming The selectivity of becoming Absolute becoming and ontological forgetting Aion and the Eternal Return 2. Quasi-causality Double causality in Deleuze Deleuze, Whitehead and Kant on final causality Immanent causation in The Logic of Sense Žižek and the critique of dualist ontology Absolute becoming and event: Surface Sensory becoming and bodies: Depth The gateway of the moment and the quasi-cause Instantaneous time and nomadology 3. Lines and Becoming The abstract line The northern line The line-bloc The line of flight Deleuze’s broken line: The rhizome 4. Time and the Eternal Return Ritornello: The Eternal Return and the pure past The milieu and the Ritornello The time crystal as Ritornello The paradox of the untimely Differentiation and the moment: ‘Once’ Integration and the labyrinth: ‘and for All’ Resolution to the paradox 5. The Becoming of Gilles Deleuze Re-appropriation and the concept of becoming: masks in Deleuze’s works The becoming of duration The becoming of the Eternal Return The becoming of the moment Conceptual lines and the defeat of dualist ontology Notes Bibliography Index