The material nature of difference, of an inherent becoming-other, is an aspect of existence's abundance and continual transformations. Of interest to contemporary material feminists, Elizabeth Grosz, Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler is Deleuze's positive concept of desire. Following Nietzsche, Deleuze's is a philosophical engineering project that inverts Platonism, giving desire and processes of becoming primacy. In their crosscultural and historical variation, processes of becoming-subject are mechanisms for the legitimation of order. Modernity has been generated in homogenizing and essentializing cultural codings by which differentiations of race, gender and class have been marked and established as the basis for entitlement, access to citizenship and the subjugation of its excluded.
Differences are discursively and materially deployed as conditions of possibility.
Postmodern subjects surpass representation, system and totality in processes of interrupted becoming-other. The nomadic subject participates in acts of perennial seizure and ceding of desire and difference. The ontological productivity of being is a perpetual becoming-other. The complex relations, values and material conditions that constitute a concept, a representation or a text are singular events. They are desire's events, traversing the complex relational fields of experience.