Those who knew Gilles Deleuze consistently note his firm commitment to joyful affirmation and his distaste for the ressentiment of negativity. Beatifying this sentiment, Deleuzians have established a whole canon of joy. But what good is joy in this world of compulsive positivity?

It is time to move from the chapel to the crypt. There is sufficient textual evidence to establish this counter-canon. And from it, we can create a glossary of the “Dark Deleuze.”

Joyous: Dark: Our Task Create Conceptions Destroy Worlds Substance Techno-Science Political Anthropology Existence Genesis Transformation Ontology Realism Materialism Subjects Assemblages Un-becoming Speed Acceleration Withdrawal Diagrams Complexity Asymmetry Affects Intensity Cruelty Flows Production Interruption Difference Inclusive Disjunction Exclusive Disjunction Organization Rhizome Unfolding The Sensible Experience Indiscernibility Distribution Crowned Anarchy The Outside Cinema The Forces of Bodies The Powers of the False Nomadism Pastoral Barbarian Politics Molecular Cataclysmic Ethics Processural Democracy Immanent Communism