TERM AND TRANSLATION
becoming
devenirbecoming
The atlas uses 生成 for technical devenir in compounds such as becoming-animal and becoming-woman; ordinary 变成 describes change toward a fixed endpoint.
Atlas working translation
生成
- French term
- devenir
- English term
- becoming
Variants and search terms
- 变成Simplified record
- 成为Simplified record
- 变易Simplified record
- 生成过程Simplified record
- 生成Traditional record
- 變成Traditional record
- 成為Traditional record
- 變易Traditional record
- becomingCommon / non-Chinese record
Conceptual boundary
Becoming is an asymmetrical process in which terms change through proximity, distinct from imitation, identification, evolution, and a fixed endpoint.
Sources and translations
- 01Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille plateaux, Minuit, 1980
French primary text for assemblage, rhizome, becoming, territory, and the body without organs.
- 02《资本主义与精神分裂（卷2）：千高原》，姜宇辉译，上海书店出版社，2010
Published Mainland translation used to compare Deleuze–Guattari terminology.
- 03Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1
Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.