"1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal
. . . ."
The purpose of this outline is to provide first time readers with a guide that will allow them to follow the arguments presented in each "memoir". If certain aspects of each section are stressed it is probably because those are the portions of the material I felt most comfortable presenting and not necessarily because the text itself stressed those issues. With that said, I feel this outline reflects the more important issues covered in the chapter in a way that resembles their presentation in the chapter itself: reinforcement. (This is why the outline is not thematically divided but follows the text's internal divisions.) The chapter's argument is not built upon so much as re-argued in each section. This allows for D/G to elaborate without re-presenting the argument in full or repeating themselves, a mode of argumentation which emphasizes their claim that what they are describing is a process visible and active in a variety of disciplines.
I. Memories of a Moviegoer
A. Willard
B. becoming-rat not matter of resemblance
1. the pack; a becoming-molarity
2. the deterritorialization forestalls
attempts of conventional reterritorializations
II. Memories of a Naturalist
A. evolution/natural history; Nature
as mimesis
1. structure
a. relation of structure
to structure by analogy; gills are to breathing
underwater
as lungs are to . . . ; a is to b as c is to d
b. analogy of proportionality;
requires studious imagination
2. series
a. all terms conform to an
eminent term as a principle behind series;
a
resembles b, b resembles c
b. analogy of proportion;
royal form of analogy requiring all resources of
understanding
3. the serial-structural idea
a. must not rely on resemblance
b. nor on descents or filiations
B. Jungian archetypes/dreams
1. animal inseparable from a series
of progressions/regressions
2. given a troubling image, it’s
a matter of integrating it into an archetypal series
3. contrary to natural history,
man no longer eminent serial term
C. Levi-Strauss and totemism
1. a symbolic structural ordering
of understanding, not a serial organization of
the imaginary
symbolic
2. given two groups we must ascertain
how each’s respective totems entertain
relations
analogous to those of the groups
a. it is a question of ordering
differences to arrive at a correspondence of
relations
b. the serialization of resemblance’s
within a structuration of difference
III. Memories of a Bergsonian
A. structuralism cannot account
for becoming-animals of humans; when encountered
it sees
them as phenomena of degradation representing a deviation from true/tree
order
1. cannot account for blocks of
becoming by correspondence of structural
relations
2. these blocks represent lines-of-flight
of irreducible dynamics
a. not systematically accountable
like resemblance’s, imitations or
identifications
b. not a serial pro- or regression
B. becoming lacks a subject distinct
from itself
1. not an evolution into something
(if evolution contains them it is only in
symbiosis)
2. becoming is an involution
a. not regressive; necessarily
creative
b. to involve is to create
a block of becoming running between terms; a
becoming is the creation of a third term best understood rhizomatically
between
heterogeneous terms
IV. Memories of a Sorcerer, I
A. between heterogeneous terms becoming
always involves a multiplicity
1. not characteristic dependent
(unlike natural history); a matter of multiple
possible
modes (Spinoza?)
2. a matter of unnatural[ized?]
participation in the pack/multiplicity
B. fearsome involutions (unnatural
participations) lead us to new becoming-animals
(not necessarily regressive); 3 types of animals
1. individuated (family pets);
cause to regress
2. State animals; with characteristics
and enter serial/structural relations (Jungian
arch.)
3. pack-animals; affect inducing
C. pack/multiplicity becomings
1. oppose serial-structural apparatus
of sexual reproduction
2. involve unnatural participations
(contagion, epidemics, battles, etc.)
a. Nature operating against
itself with contagions
b. contagions function in
multiplicities as assemblages (1st principle)
-it is here human beings
effect their becoming-animal
V. Memories of a Sorcerer, II
A. 2nd principle; always an exceptional
individual within a multiplicity with whom
an alliance must
be made in order to become-animal; the Anomalous (Moby Dick)
1. the Anomalous a position or
set of positions in a multiplicity
2. it is without characteristics;
has only affects
3. it is a phenomena of bordering
a. multiplicity not defined
by extensive elements (characteristics) but by
intensive lines and divisions
b. the elements of the pack
are variable; the characteristics symbolic
c. only the borderlines matter;
changing them will lead to inclusion of more
elements
and characteristics and therefore to a new multiplicity
4. the borderline is the Anomalous
a. impossible to determine
whether its in the multiplicity
b. whenever its occupied
(by an anomalous individual) the border is in the
process of being redrawn, changing the relations of the members of that
pack
V. Memories of a Sorcerer, III
A. becoming-animal not paramount;
part of the process of becoming-molecular
B. becoming and multiplicity are
the same thing
1. defined by number of immanent
dimensions
2. gaining a dimension changes
multiplicity’s nature (expands realm of
possibilities)
C. the Anomalous
1. borders each multiplicity
2. determines the temporary or
local stability
3. precondition for alliance necessary
to becoming
4. carries transformations farther
down the line-of-flight
D. each multiplicity is symbiotic;
no order to becoming; follows alogical
consistencies and compatibilities
E. experimentation in the construction
of rhizomes
F. plane-of-consistency (PoC) cuts
across all multiplicity’s number of dimensions
1. intersection of all concrete
forms
2. itself, all possible forms
3. becoming-imperceptible on PoC
a. abstract machine (AM)
of which each concrete assemblage is a
multiplicity/becoming
b. AM is the intersection
of all possibilities
VII. Memories of a theologian
A. in theology, humans cannot become-animals
except when
1. Ulysses’ companions believe
themselves to be animals and so do the observers
2. Diomedes companions: the Devil
assuming animal forms (?)
B. but in neither case is the essential
form changed
C. degrees/intensities
1. not demonic but
2. account for accidents composing
individuations different from subjects that
receive them
VIII. Memories of a Spinozist, I
A. one substance individuated by
relation of movement and rest (PoC)
B. Curvier/Saint-Hilaire debate
1. both denounce resemblance’s
but differ, as:
a. Curvier: scientific definition
concerns relations between organs (analogy
of proportionality)
B. St.-Hilaire: pure material
elements of varying degrees of speed and
slowness
-Perrier’s tachygenesis
2. for St.-Hilaire then there’s
a simple AM for all the assemblages that effectuate
it
C. children are Spinozists
1. peepeemaker with its machinic
function
2. Spinozism is the becoming-child
of philosophers
IX. Memories of a Spinozist, II
A. longitude: particle aggregates
of a body in a given relation
B. latitude: the affects of what
a body is capable of at a given degree
C. we know nothing of what a body
is capable of without A. and B.
1. becoming not an analogy but
a composition of speed and affects on the PoC
(little Hans’ horse and the rat-man)
2. problem with psychoanalysis
is it denies reality of becoming-animal; has no
feeling for unnatural participations
X. Memories of a Haeccity
A. on PoC, the body is defined as
longitude and latitude
B. 2 modes of individuation, one
of which is haeccity
1. individuation of a life (PoC
of composition of a haeccity); aeon; infinitive
verbs
2. individuation of the subject
that leads it or serves as a support (form,
substance, subject); chronos
C. haeccity is entire assemblage
in individuated aggregate forming background for
subject, which exists on other plane
1. assemblage haeccities
2. inter-assemblage haeccities
-1. and 2. are strictly inseparable
D. grammar
XI. Memories of a Plan(e) Maker
A. 2 ways of conceptualizing the
plane-of-organization (PoO) or development
1. structural plane of formed organizations
and their development
2. the genetic plane of evolutionary
developments and their organizations
B. the PoO always concerns the development
of forms and formation of subjects
C. the PoO is hidden
1. can only be inferred, induced,
or concluded from what it gives rise to
2. a hidden structure for forms
3. a secret signifier for subjects
D. the PoC(onsistency)
1. relations of movement and rest
2. only haeccities; subjectless
individuations that constitute collective
assemblages
3. never has supplementary planes;
immanence
4. a.k.a. the plane of noncontradiction
E. Holerlin
F. Kleist
G. Nietzsche
H. the PoC continually passes into
PoO unnoticed (and vice versa)
1. PoO = stratification
2. PoC = machinic assemblages (MA)
between strata = Nature = Body-without-
Organs
3. PoO always trying to plug lines-of-flight/inhibit
deterritorialization
4. we must not allow PoC to become
a plane of abolition/death
I. Western music
XII. Memories of a Molecule
A. progression of becomings
1. woman
2. child
3. animal; vegetable; mineral
4. molecular
a. however, all becomings
are already becoming-molecular
b. zone of proximity (ZoP)
governs all becomings and involves particles
(molecular)
B. Scherer and Hocquenghem’s wolf-children
C. what one becomes are always molecular
collectivities (animals, flowers, etc.) not
molar subjects
1. moments of molar imitation do
exist but
2. must involve particles reined
in by a zone of proximity
D. becoming-woman
1. microfeminity
2. Virginia Woolf and the theft
of the female body
3. all becomings must pass through
the becoming-woman
a. marriage
b. man of war
4. sexuality proceeds by becoming-woman
of man and becoming-animal of
humans
E. becoming-animal
F. becoming-imperceptible
1. be like everybody else
a. “everybody else” is a
molar aggregate but
b. becoming-everybody else
is molecular (identity of ZoP and zone of
indiscernibility)
2. movement
a. pure relations of speed
and slowness are below the threshold of
perception, however
b. movement must be perceptible
-on PoO movement cannot
be seen (nor can the PoO itself) but
-on PoC the principle
of composition must be perceived, only not at the
same time as that which it composes
c. what cannot be perceived
on the PoO must be on PoC
-so it is in the interaction
of the 2 planes that the imperceptible becomes
perceptible
-perception confronting
its own limit
G. changing perception (drug assemblages)
1. imperceptible is perceived
2. perception is molecular
3. desire directly invests the
perception and the perceived
4. the unconscious
a. plane of transcendence
of psychoanalysis
b. drugs give the unconscious
an immanence psychoanalysis denies (Oedipus
et al)
5. drugs mobilize gradients and
thresholds of perception and therefore lead to
becomings
6. however, addicts most often
return to PoO
a. this territorialization
is all the more artificial because it is drug induced
(more artificial?)
XIII. Memories of a Secret
A. perception and the secret
1. regardless of the secret’s content,
the secret cannot allow its existence to be
perceived
a. 2 movements of the secret
-content
-form
b. discovery of secret’s
existence is perception of imperceptible
2. secret societies
a. presence of secret hindsociety
b. secret mode of action
B. becoming-secret
1. secret elevated from finite
content to infinite form of secrecy
2. paranoiacs
a. plots to steal their secrets
or gifts of perceiving others’ secrets
b. act by means of or suffer
from rays
3. the unconscious given the task
of being infinite form of secrecy in
(interminable) psychoanalysis
C. the more the secret is made into
structuring, organizing form (PoO) the more it
involves itself with PoC
D. Henry James (see “1874: Three
Novellas or ‘What Happened’”)
XIV. Memories of Becoming, Points, and
Blocks
A. no becoming-man
1. because becoming is minoritarian
2. majority is the standard against
which minorities (relatively?) defined
a. assumes as pregiven the
right and power of man
b. because of this becomings
must always pass through becoming-woman
B. becoming implies 2 simultaneous
movements
1. withdrawal from majority
2. term rising up from minority
3. combine in a block of alliance
or becoming
4. therefore no subject of becoming
except as deterritorialized variable of
majority
C. no becoming-man because man is
majority par excellence and
1. becomings are always molecular
2. the central point or third eye
a. organizes binary distribution
within dualism machine and
b. reproduces itself in the
principle term of the opposition (redundancy)
D. arboresence is constituted by
the submission of the line to the point
1. becoming not defined by the
points it connects but
2. by the passing between them;
running perpendicular to them
a. no destination or departure
b. not relation between the
points but
3. a nonlocalizable relation sweeping
up two distinct points, carrying one into
proximity
of the other
a. border-proximity indifferent
to contiguity and distance
b. the movement of becoming
frees itself from points, rendering them
indiscernible
-becoming is anti-memory
-memories have reterritorialization
function
E. punctual system
1. when lines are considered localizable
connections (arboresence)
a. memory
b. the flow of time
2. comprised of horizontal and
vertical base lines; serve as coordinates for
assigning
points
3. lines drawn between points represent
localizable connections
4. represent process or re- and
territorialization
F. multilinear systems
1. everything happens at once (simultaneity)
a. line breaks free of point
as origin
b. diagonal breaks free of
vertical or horizontal coordinates
c. transversal breaks free
of diagonal as localizable connection between
points
2. line runs between points and
renders them indiscernible
a. creative lines and
b. their relative intensities
XV. Becoming-Music
A. musical expression inseparable
from becomings that serve as its content
B. territorial refrain
1. opposed to creative lines of
flight of music
2. music deterritorializes the
refrain
C. painting
1. semiotic systems
2. organizations of the face (see
“faciality”)
3. deterritorialization of the
face
D. music as the deterritorialized
voice
1. just as painting is of the face
(be wary of the metaphorical)
2. music though has stronger deterritorializing
force (intensity?)
a. therefore painting is
more palatable to more people
3. machining (abstract?) of the
voice
a. first musical operation
b. voice neither male nor
female (masculine nor feminine?)
c. voice must attain becoming-woman
or -child (castrati?)
4. becoming-molecular is when the
voice is instrumentalized
E. becoming is always double
1. block is formed
2. block essentially mobile, never
in equilibrium
Note: The chapter ends with the Theorems
5-8. Quoted out of context they are nonsensical. It is
essential that they be read not as a summation
of the material presented in “Becoming Intense . . .”
but as means of producing more productive
re-readings of it (in conjunction with Theorems 1-4,
presented in the “Faciality” chapter).