Abstract

In the course of reading David Lapoujade’s Aberrant Movements, readers will undoubtedly encounter its overtly nuanced positioning. In relation to the existent patterns of critical engagement withDeleuze’s works, Lapoujade chooses to make his book seem like an expressive tissue of an expanding poetic universe rather than a measurable extensity from some representational whole. So thepotency of his book, as Rajchman makes evident in the ‘Introduction’ to Aberrant Movements,doesn’t lie in unfolding like a teleological mimicry of what stands before us as some kind of palimpsestic accretion of a-categorical Deleuzean readings. Rather his work is a perversely creative exercisein repeating these readings into openings of inassimilable differences. Such an inclusively ‘exclusivepositioning’ of his book brings about what we may call a transformative de-familiarization of it,rendering it as indistinct patterns of aberrant movements that continuously and creatively shift usfrom one kind of complex territorial intensity to another.