We know very well the weight of the passage of Deleuze's thought for the history of philosophy, from his fundamental works of the late 60's, through his readings of other philosophers, his books that invade or invade fields of non- Philosophical, until his collaboration with Guattari. What it is difficult for us to know better is its gravitation in us, what to do with it, with its work, beyond the quotation of chance or banal complacency. And it is the core question for a philosophy: its use value. What to do with the critics of capitalism, the state apparatus, neurotic lives or Oedipus? How to build a policy with the concepts of nomadism, war machine or escape line? How can becoming a minority be powerful?
We needed a reading like that of David Lapoujade, who has navigated like no one else by the work of Deleuze - working on the compilation of his scattered texts - and who constructs his reading from a voice of his own, not like someone who chants a jargon. (One or many parrots?)
In this book, called to become (if we were not already too anesthetized ...) reference, Lapoujade achieves three or four things immense and immediately necessary for us. First, to read from a concept, the one of aberrant movements, which is extracted as a constant of the thought of Deleuze, that looks for them here and there. Secondly, make the (rigorous) bridge between seemingly distant works such as Difference and Repetition and Thousand Plateaus, but not only, and detect the various names for a common search. Thirdly, to think (with lucidity) the present world and to "stretch" Deleuze's already anticipatory thinking about control societies (passive nihilism, machines with men inside, men like monads, images that resent images, interstitial and encompassing dominance , etc.). Finally, to think the outside (against the open, not only against the closed), to think the desert, the intolerable, the new land, the people to come, that is to say the politics of Deleuze; And to think ourselves, the experimentation that we are, inside. How to compose an inside that supports the outside ... in such a way that the mutation is wanted?