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Flexed artistry and something of the same Deleuze appeals to schizophrenia, or the recombination and linking of diverse information, to disrupt and displace the passivity of the viewer of art. This linking of information, for example, between philosophy and visual art, would not use philosophy to discuss visual art but would find a third term between the two, which would facilitate the "becoming-visual art" of philosophy or the "becoming-philosophy" of visual art. This "becoming-x" is Deleuze's method for reversing Platoism without trading one structure for another and to dismantle or transform affirmatively. Becoming or transforming, for Deleuze, is possible when a philosopher (artist) finds a niche or "becoming-x" with the majority and begins to dissolve resistances to make way for the minority. It is this theory of transformation and change, or as Deleuze put it, "pure becoming", that motivated him to replace Being with Difference and replace Time (in linear) with difference-making repetition. In his essay, Eternal Recurrence, Deleuze uses Nietzsche's concept of the eternal return to make the move from Being and Time to Difference and Repetition. "Because it is neither felt nor known, a becoming-active can only be thought as the product of a selection." For Deleuze, the eternal return is the being of becoming or the selective principle of becoming. Only becoming-active, as opposed to becoming-reactive, has being. The concept closely parallels Zeno of Elea who effectively taught philosophy that becoming cannot be thought of as a juxtaposition of static pieces of extension and time. It also parallels the Stoics in its inversion of Plato's "simile of the line", which is one of the Platonic concepts that hardens the ontological differences between Being and becoming.

Ontological Argument: An a priori attempt to prove the existence of a divine entity by showing that from the very concept, an existence can be deduced. This argument has been defended by many philosophers in the Platonic tradition and appears in one form or another in the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Hegel. It has been rejected by St. Thomas, Hume, Kant and Kierkegaard.

Ontology: Theory of being. The branch of philosophy pursuing the questions: What is real? What is the difference between appearance and reality? What is the relationship between mind and bodies? What is the relationship between the sections of this text? What is the relationship between your body, your mind and our text? Are texts, numbers, and concepts real or are only physical objects, windows and wolves real? Am I real? Are you? "Where do we really stand in relation to each other, bro?"