Deleuze\u27s untimely: uses and abuses in the appropriation of Nietzsche

This chapter studies the expression of Nietzsche\u27s untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. The concepts of immanence and the outside form a relation throughout Deleuze and Guattari\u27s work that leads to their radical conception of the event, and in particular the historical event. As we see in What is Phiolosphy?, in conjunction with Foucault\u27s actual and Peguy\u27s aternal, the Nietzschean untimely provides a touchstone for Deleuze and Guattari\u27s explanation of creativity in the historical event:: the unhistorical is located as both the force and the site from which the sedimentaitons of history emerge. But while Deleuze and Guattari share in Nietzsche\u27s attempt to facilitate creations counter to our historical present, it cannot be said that they explicitly mirror (or indeed faithfully recount) Nietzsche\u27s analysis of history, its terms, and its effects in society. By tracing the various uses of the untimely throughout Deleuze\u27s work, a differential \u27becoming/history\u27 materialises that simultaneously enhances aspects of Nietzsche\u27s thoughts on the untimely whilst conflicting others