| Summary: | This article discusses the place that the concept of rhythm occupies within Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy. I present a panorama of different ways to conceptualize thought throughout Deleuze’s
writings from 1960’s to 1990’s, emphasizing the discussion about the threshold of thought. In the
writings in partnership with Félix Guattari, Deleuze understand thought as an act of confronting
chaos, what makes the problem of consistency a point of extreme relevance within his philosophical
system. In this framework, the concept of thought is described as a tension between consistency
and infinite speed (chaos). In order to elaborate this concept of thought, Deleuze resumes his conceptualization of the three syntheses of the time and formulates with Guattari the concept of refrain. I will show that the refrain is at the axis of an epistemological shift in the whole program of
transcendental philosophy, by affirming a necessarily heterogeneous and aberrant Time, which
features the concept of rhythm as the genetic element of difference. Within this conceptual framework, I follow the authors’ suggestion that the logic of schizoanalysis is analogous to the logic of
subtractive sound synthesis. The main goal is to demonstrate that rhythm is at the core of Deleuzian concept of difference and sound is at the core of Deleuzian concept of thought.
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