Abstract
The process of becoming in which each sign “changes in nature as it expands its connections” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 8) is grounded – or, rather, ungrounded because its unorthodox “ground” is difference as addressed in the preceding chapter – in a series of transformations. This sign-dynamics proceeds as a movement away from the isolated individualistic, rational and patriarchal, Ego in its detachment from the body as a separate Cartesian substance and toward what Deleuze calls becoming-woman in terms of acquiring feminine, holistic, consciousness.
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Semetsky, I. (2013). Becoming-Woman. In: The Edusemiotics of Images. Educational Futures, vol 55. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-055-2_6
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