Deleuze and Becoming by Samantha Bankston (Sierra Nevada College, USA)
Deleuzes 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 Deleuzes writings, arguing that expressions of becoming(s) appear in two modes of temporality: an appropriation of Nietzsches eternal return (the becoming of the event), and Bergsonian duration (the becoming of sensation). Overturning the criticisms launched by Zizek 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 Deleuzes philosophy. Bankston systematizes Deleuzes multi-mirrored universe where form and content infinitely refract in a vital kaleidoscope of becoming.