A difference capable of being understood outside the dominance or regime of the One, the self-same, the imaginary play of mirrors and doubles, the structure of binary pairs in which what is different can be understood only as a variation or negation of identity. Deleuze claims to conceptualize difference in terms beyond the four “illusions” of representation: identity, opposition, analogy, and resemblance. In conceptualizing a difference in and of itself, a difference that is not subordinated to identity or the same, Deleuze and Guattari invoke two forms of energy and alignment: the processes of becoming and the notion of multiplicity, a becoming beyond the logic, constraints, and confines of being, and a multiplicity beyond the merely doubling or multicentering of proliferating subjects…
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Elizabeth Grosz, A Thousand Tiny Sexes (via rhizombie
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