than creates it. Furthermore, for Deleuze, human language offers only one system of differences among many others, including genetic, chromatic, and chemical.8 The second intellectual current from which Deleuze’s thought distances itself is phenomenology, with its principle that all knowledge begins with phenomena, with how things appear to me, regardless of what those things may or not be in themselves. As with structuralism, this position betrays for Deleuze an unwarranted anthropocentric bias: