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converges with that of "becoming-woman" (as they say, "everyone has to 'become-woman', even women..."), "becoming-animal", "becoming-molecular", "becoming-imperceptible" and ultimately, "becoming-revolutionary". Each type of affective becoming marks a new phase of a larger process that
Deleuze and Guattari call
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further develops this concept in the nascent years of his non-philosophical oeuvre. His concept is distinguished from that of
Deleuze and Guattari in that minorities are treated from the point of view (so to speak) of minorities and not via an ensemble of (ultimately) reversible becomings that ends
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provides an illustration of how the concept of "minority" is used: while there may be more women than men numerically, in
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Guattari's central example here is
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