Heidegger asserts that Being reveals itself as the groundless abyss that underwrites reality and experience. But for Heidegger and others, groundlessness, in this sense, is still a metaphor for depth (unfathomable depth at that). Deleuze is far more concerned with surfaces; hence his fondness for planes (the plane of immanence, the plane of consistency, etc.).

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