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subordinated to difference.106 Deleuze sees his system as one where everything passes through
the eternal return, only to return as Difference.107 Pure Difference amounts to the subject which
is divided within itself and yet emerges through this very divide in continual fashion. Much like
Nietzsche, Deleuze's work undermines the stability of systems through a transcendental
empiricism founded upon the constant of the eternal return. He recognizes that organization
(subjugated groups) as co-extensive with a schizophrenic de-coding. Deleuze sees desires
puncture through the boundaries that attempt to organize them. They decoding the subjugated
groups, splintering it into subject groups, even as the body without organs struggles to capture
and over-code difference back into a larger organization. In Deleuze's work, a process of coding,
overcoding and de-coding emerges in the relation between the social-production and desiring-
production.108 When he states that the molecular and molar are co-existent,109 it seems implied
that the impersonal lens of Deleuze's transcendental empiricism turns itself upon various scales
of manifestations in the world. Even in a moment of splintering creation, there seems to be a re-
productive subject group/subjugated group relation. Although there is no overarching system
accounting for objective and unchangeable order, systems of organization are forming and
reforming at all levels of scale. Ultimately, this systemic anti-System process is one by which the
active, the positive is continually affirmed in the cycle of eternal return. In the philosophy of
Deleuze, pure affirmation and excess emerge along flows of desire from the body without
organs.
The resulting method of transcendental empiricism, then, is made transcendental through
106 For something to be tragic is for it to be an affirmation of chance, a willing of the dice throw. It is not the joyful
but the affirmation of multiplicity. Ibid., 36.
107 Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 41.
108 Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 262.
109 Ibid., 28047
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