The Series that is not One.

2. The Series always has an `empty space' implied at it's head, a blank area that is open to re-articulation, a place where another term or definer can sit or a new and startling event may take place. In Deleuze this event can become the domain of `nonsense', which becomes not the absence of sense, but that which is outside sense and yet transformative, the area for a paradigm shift. This re-articulation is the beginning of his ideas that come to fruition in his later writings with Guatarri, resulting in the infamous `becoming other', and `rhizomatics', which we will come to in due course.

The very important thing about this theory of series and meaning is that the apparently unitary series is always (at least) a twin; the terms and their definitions must present two series that oscillate together.

This implies that all concepts held in language have a relationship to another concept, itself open to rearticulation and held in a horizontal plane with the first; the singular is always multiple, and meaning always circulates somewhere else. In this sense it is possible and enlightening to provide two arbitrary series of terms and see what happens , how one affects each other within a common `basin of attraction' or plateau; a kind of conceptual Petrie dish, or, as Deleuze might say, `an arse fuck'. We will have to take in a bit of Chaos Theory along the way...
Self and Network get together.

In the context of this essay, the definitions of `self' elide with those of the `network', the new paradigm of techno-social culture. We will consider both series, and their bastard children...

Deleuze on Miscreation...

"What got me through that period was conceiving of the history of philosophy as kind of arse-fuck, or, what amounts to the same thing, an immaculate conception. I imagined myself approaching an author from behind and giving him a child that would indeed be his but would nonetheless be monstrous."
(Deleuze 1990)