Of course one writes about Deleuze from the middle of a number of things. Deleuze's singly and co-authored works comprise an oeuvre that stretches over forty years, an oeuvre whose works rove over a wide and varied range of philosophical and nonphilosophical sources. Those works support an abundance of secondary literature containing diverse and contradictory interpretations. There are a thicket of articles, guides, and monographs devoted to single works, and to explorations of a theme or single concept. The monographs that address Deleuze's system more comprehensively constitute a discordant chorus that cannot conceivably form any kind of unity. A quick sampling of some of the major positions on Deleuze's works lead one to understand that he and his system should be best understood as