Despite his lack of engagement with questions of normative political theory, Deleuze is a deeply political philosopher. His work in collaboration with Guattari offers new concepts and a new approach to thinking philosophically about the political. Deleuze's contribution to political thought must be evaluated in relation to his own conception and practice of philosophy. The premise here is that Deleuze must be taken literally when he describes his work with Guattari as 'philosophy, nothing but philosophy, in the traditional sense of the term'. (Deleuze 1980: 99). Deleuze and Guattari privilege the processes of creative transformation and the lines of flight through which individuals or groups are transformed into something different from what they were before. They do not refer to individual subjects of freedom or autonomy, much less to notions of contract or consent. His work is expressed entirely in non-subjectivist terms and refers only to abstract lines, movements and processes of different kinds. They seem to be more interested in the ways in which society is differentiated or divided than in the ways in which it holds it together.