"The Body Without Organs causes intensities to pass: it produces and distributes them in a spatium that is itself intensive, lacking extension . . . It is non-stratified, unformed, intense matter . . . that is why we treat the Body Without Organs as the full egg before the extension of the organism and the organization of the organs before the formation of strata . . ." [9]
In this construct, the "Body Without Organs" is a limit, a tendency; a becoming that resists centralized organization or meaningful investment; a point/process to which all bodies, through their stratification, tend; a becoming that resists the processes of overcoding/organization according to the strata or identities it opposes (organism/subject/significance). The Body Without Organs resists any equation with a notion of identity; "The Body Without Organs is never yours or mine. It is always a body." [10]The "Body Without Organs" is a field of becomings. Destratification, frees "lines of flight," the production of connections and the movement of intensities and flows through and beyond the "Body Without Organs" – trajectories as opposed to fixed states. Deleuze and Guattari advocate not a dissolution of identity, but rather micro-destratifications, intensifications of certain interactions. Becomings are specific movements, specific forms of motion and rest, speed and slowness, points and flows of intensity – they are always a multiplicity, the movement/transformation from "one" thing to another that in no way resembles it. Deleuze and Guattari suggest that becomings involve a mediating third factor, a relation to something else, to which the subject relates and through which relation it enters into connection with. Becoming means going beyond identity and subjectivity fragmenting and freeing up lines of flight, "liberating" identity. There is a progression in this process an order from becoming "animal" then towards imperceptible.
Indiscernibility/imperceptibility remain the destination points of becoming, the immanent direction/internal impetus, the release of absolute minuscule micro-intensities to the nth degree.
Neo's ultimate task is to realise that he is in the "world", but not of it. This realization cannot be attained, however, without first confronting his doubts. In this respect, the "Oracle sequence" is pivotal. Before meeting her, Neo pauses in the waiting room witnessing a brief magic lesson from a celestial-like child with a spoon.
Spoon Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead…only try to realise the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon Boy: There's no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon Boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
This spoon-bending incident aptly prepares Neo for the mind-bending the Oracle will subject him to. She starts by playing with his mind and confounding his expectations. She lets him believe he is not the One, adding that Morpheus will not accept this and will probably die defending his belief in him. Neo is presented with the "imaginary" option of withdrawing from, a fixed situation, but simultaneously caught by circumstances in which this is not a possible option. He has to fight for Morpheus and for what he believes in even though he now regards this as false. Neo is effectively liberated from self-doubt and is set free to act, in full acknowledgment of his inadequacy.
The Oracle appears to see time laid out before her like a map, she presumably knows that Morpheus will not die, and that Neo is the One, but that both facts/possibilities depend upon Neo's believing the opposite (just as breaking the vase depended on her telling him not to worry about it). In order to become the One, Neo must primarily be freed of the intolerable burden that this entails – making it beyond useless to him, until he comes to his own self-revelation. Hence, he has to prove his identity, not to "an-other", but to himself.
Oracle I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor.
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry . . .
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Oh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?
In the course of The Matrix, Neo is "reborn"/"metamorphosed." He is changed by his perception of the order of time. Neo is fixed between two flows, cutting across them as if he can locate on another plane. Neo's trajectory can be read as a struggle against order moving between a plane of organization that attempts to constrain/impede the counter-movement of one who wishes to exist on the plane of consistency. A narrative resistance.
Morpheus: If you can free your mind, the body will follow.
Deleuze follows Kant, Bergson and Leinbiz in creating an ever-varying concept of time – a play of syntheses, culminating in a Nietzschean outcome. The action is a process that aggregates the fracture of time the before and after, into an "ensemble of time" in its constituent disparity, its internal difference. The fracture extends into a before and after image of itself becoming, a time-series that operates the distribution of the lines and surfaces of time on either side of the fracture. The Deleuzian synthesis initiates new images and concepts. Where movement stops, where time stops "moving"/"passing" and starts to "become." The "becoming" co-exists with the instant coming strictly "between" the time of the event's occurrence, of actualization in a state of things. It does not itself occur or happen but comes between time, not just between the times that pass and follow each other, but between time and itself, within itself, as the outside/future within ourselves, our "subject" as time.
Nietzsche named the inner function of this becoming, its creative drive, the "Will to Power." The Will to Power respects no boundaries in its imperative to grow and become, via appropriation and exploitation, also the Will to Power is an attempt to describe the interpretative manifestation of the "whole" of our existence.
The Nietzschean scheme – the fractal complexion of the Will to Power displays interpretative surfaces, differentiated flows and dynamic quanta rather than subjects, objects and intentionally. This Nietzschean program is essentially a spatial analysis of posthuman universe with no inherent scale or definition, no distinction between organic and inorganic no essential difference between bodies, emotions, thoughts and consciousness. Everything exists is the will to power – an infinite becoming, a dynamic system in restless motion. Nothing exists apart from the whole, and everything that exists is the result of differentiations manifested within an encompassing flow of energy. The boundaries between the differentiations are not smooth Euclidean parameters, but fractal borders with no inherent scale which purvey infinite details and express the action of process operating at every point in the flow. Nothing exists at rest, there are no absolutes, only dynamic non-linear progression that expresses itself at every point of an infinite interiority.