Deleuze and Becoming [Hardcover]

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 }i~ek 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.

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: 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

CHAPTER TWO: QUASI-CAUSALITY
Double Causality in Deleuze
Deleuze, Whitehead, and Kant on Final Causality
Immanent Causation in The Logic of Sense
}i~ek 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

CHAPTER THREE: LINES AND BECOMING
The Abstract Line
The Northern Line
The Line-Bloc
The Line of Flight
Deleuze's Broken Line: The Rhizome

CHAPTER FOUR: TIME AND THE ETERNAL RETURN
Ritornello: The Eternal Return and the Pure Past
The Milieu and lÃ!