Conclusion: From the Becoming of Narrative to the Narrativity of Becoming

The conclusion briefly brings together the results of the previous chapters recapitulating how they all work to reveal becoming as the primary ontological virtual realm of any given actual narrative and that this has only been possible by following the reverse movement of the speculative becoming-virtual of actual narratives as they crack open their representational surface and burrow ever deeper towards their conditioning differentials. In addition, and taking its cue from chapter 4, the conclusion makes clear that the becoming of narrative also entails the narrativity of becoming. While the former has been the focus of the present work, elaborating the latter remains a task for the future. The conclusion ends by briefly delineating—with recourse to the recent speculative turn in continental philosophy—the first tentative steps of such a task thus, in true Deleuzian spirit, ending the book with the detection and formulation of a new problem to be tackled.