The flow of energy is a non-linear dynamical system consisting of a dynamic and its state space. The dynamic is the Will to Power – an inner function that drives the non-teleological progression of the flow, whole its state space, is the potential field in which the flow of energy is encompassed. The flow of energy manifests a complex network of differentiated flows with flexible parameters (interpretative surfaces) producing original hybrids.The Flow is a state of "becoming" always "in flux", knowledge is a "falsehood" constantly changing but never approaching truth; there is no truth. Knowledge is not an explanation of the world, but a description of how it appears. In a world of "becoming", everything exists in a dynamic and non-linear relationship with everything else, in a process that erases its own history as it progresses.
The Will to Power is not a universal law, but a functional imperative that operates autonomously from every position in the flow of energy and interacts with its surroundings in unpredictable ways, to produce an infinite complexity in which we are situated. The Will to Power, manifests itself singularly against resistances and so operates from centres of a force that exists by virtue of the effects they produce and those they resist. Nietzsche describes these centres as dynamic quanta – from which a particular concentration of the will to power seeks to maintain and extend its influence.
Nietzschean evaluations are not simply values, they are ways of being, the modes of existence of those who evaluate. For Deleuze thought must think against reason and oppose reason, one must no longer affirm and incorporate existing values but create new ones, to go beyond/overcome in the creation of a different way of feeling - another sensibility. Deleuze finds this metaphysics of flux in the Nietzschean image of the game of chance. This Nietzschean play in the game of "truth" is not an explanation of the "whole" but a description of the dynamic network of our shifting relationships with it – the "World" as we know it. The flow of energy encompasses what Nietzsche calls the "whole", "flow" invades the dynamic nature of becoming, while "energy" implies a potentiality, an inherent capacity for manifestation/development actuated by the "Will to Power." The flow of energy is manifested into differentiated flows within flows to excess, and is bonded by its parameters – a potential field is defined by the characteristics of the flow with which it is associated. Nothing exists in isolation or equilibrium, for a differentiated flow exists only in relation to other flows, in a dynamic and non-linear network of resistances. It is this state of tension and dependence in which differentiated flows exist that enable us to speak of a "whole", or encompassing flow of energy. However, as a whole it has no laws/form/purpose other than its own ephemeral becoming.
The "Will to Power" is, for Nietzsche, what interprets: it estimates the quality of force that gives meaning to a given phenomenon/event, and measures the relation of the forces which are in action. The Will to Power evaluates – "The Will-to-power as genealogical element is that from which senses derive their significance and values their value." (Gilles Deleuze) [11]
"I emphasise this major point of historical method all the more because It is in fundamental opposition to the new prevalent instinct and taste which would rather be reconciled even to the absolute fortuitousness, even the mechanistic senselessness of all events than to the theory that in all events a "Will to Power" is operating."
~ ~ Friedrich Nietzsche [12]
Therefore, each phenomenon is a sign/symptom where meaning is found only in an existing force. Force is sense, and, insofar as forces in tension constitute bodies/phenomena, each phenomenon is a sign whose meaning is a force that must always be evaluated. In a sense, there is no nature or nature is a history, so not only is desire semiotically and culturally constructed, but all of nature is semiotically constructed in a "regime of signs" – or as Nietzsche would have it "evaluated."
History/desire/nature are all constructed from evaluations. Evaluation is both "ethical" and aesthetic, in the sense of critical and creative. Evaluations are ways of being.
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
As contemporary culture continues to develop from a machine based technological ethos into an information based format; the body's relationship to its environment is re-configured – literally re-wired from the outside in. The radicalization of real time entails a disjunction in one's own body/subjectivity. The body is envisioned as plugged into various interfaces. The adaptations and re-toolings required of the information age will re-model the body with external elements converging in the superconsciousness of cyber-space. Mediating the interface will be the mind, in no prescribed location as such but rather situated at some crucial delta where flows of information intersect.
Flows are more constant than the external world that expresses and embodies them. In the virtual reality where technologies splice the human subject into a cybernetic circuit by putting the human "consciousness" in a direct feedback loop with the computer data source, flow becomes the operative concept – the flow of information within systems is more deterministic of identity than the materiality of physical structures. Engaging with the flow of information implies recognising that you are that flow.
The "Will to Power" similarly understood, is not a universal law but a functional imperative that operates autonomously from every position in the flow of energy, and interacts with its surroundings in unpredictable ways, to produce an infinite complexity in which we are engaged. It is the "Will to Power" that transforms energy from its state of potentiality to that of manifestation, and the "Will to Power" drives these manifestations to grow and expand through appropriation. The "Will to Power" manifests itself only against "resistances", and so operates from "centres" of force that exist by virtue of the effects they produce and those they resist. Neitzsche uses the term "dynamic quanta" describing these centres from which a particular concentration of the "Will to Power" seeks to maintain and extend its influence.
Dynamic quanta exists in a relation of tension to all other dynamic quanta, their essence lies in their relation to other quanta, in their effect upon the same. Dynamic quanta reproduce themselves in a continuous process of becoming adopting a mask of "being" to conceal their temporality and the underlying multiplicity over which they have influence. The interpretative surfaces between these energy flows purveys an infinite and dynamic complexity that can never be fixed/determined. They are formed by incessant struggles for influence between differentiated flows, which occur at every level of interaction along their boundaries, under the iterative operation of the "Will to Power." These struggles constitute a process of interpretation, for it is the "Will to Power" that interprets, defining limits, determining degrees and variations. Therefore interpretation is itself a means of becoming. The characteristics of a flow of energy are not innate/given but derived in relation to surrounding flows, and the necessity to differentiate in order to exist.