Deleuze and Becoming

Samantha Bankston has published on continental philosophy and art and translated seminars given by Gilles Deleuze, is the translator of Anne Sauvagnargues' book, Deleuze and Art (Bloomsbury, 2013), and the author of the forthcoming book, Deleuze and Žižek.

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
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

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 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

CHAPTER FIVE: 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX