Becoming

From Geography

Becoming is the process of change, flight or movement with an assemblage. Instead of conceiving all the pieces of an assemblage a whole, within which the specific pieces are placed by organisation of unity, "becoming" accounts for relationships between the "discrete" elements of the assemblage. In "becoming-" one piece of the assemblage is drawn into the territory of another piece, changing its value as an element and bringing about a new unity. There is no central organizing principle to the interconnected things in the assemblage. Deleuze and Guattari see Becoming as a process but not one of imitation or analogy, it is generative of a new way of being that is a function of influences rather than resemblances. The process is one of removing the element from its original functions and bringing about new ones.

References:

Deleuze (1993)In Constantin V. Boundas (ed) The Deleuze Reader. New York: Columbia University Press

Deleuze (1993) Language: Major and Minor

Doel (2000) Un-Glunking Geography, Spatial Science after Dr. Seuss and Gilles Deleuze

Zizek, S (date unknown) Organs without Bodies - Gilles Deleuze [electronic version]

Published by Samantha Hazlett (21/09/11)--SamanthaHazlett 18:42, 21 September 2011 (UTC)