Whitehead, Deleuze, Difference, Recreativity

According to Whitehead, Creativity is the fundamental principle of the universe. When he characterizes it as "an appetite towards a difference", he thereby anticipates Deleuze's and Derrida's appreciations of Difference as an independent fundamental principle. However, when he proceeds to focus exclusively on the Concrescent pattern of Creativity, to the neglect of its Discrescence, he reverts to what for Deleuze is the traditional subordination of Difference to Identity. Still, despite that lapse, Whitehead manages to preview another of Deleuze's cardinal concepts. Though he usually characterizes Creativity as a singular fact, he presents it as Pluralistic, the generating of a multiplicity of novelties. Hence, Creativity, for him, consists in recurring Differentiations, which is how Deleuze conceives Repetition, in contrast with the standard concept of it as mechanical reproduction, which entails a subordination of Difference to Identity. Thus, Deleuze's 'Repetition', can also be understood as 'Recreativity'.