Deleuze explains how at the moment of the completion of nihilism everything is ready for a creative transmutation that consists of an active becoming of forces, a triumph of affirmation (instead of negation) in the will to power. And what is affirmed is the earth, life in its multiplicity and becomings.

What is affirmed by Deleuze is the active forces of the body; those that reach out for power. By this is meant appropriating, possessing, subjugating, dominating by the body. Deleuze says, in paraphrasing Nietzsche in Nietzsche and Philosophy, that:

To appropriate means to to impose forms, to create forms by exploiting circumstances. Nietzsche criticizes Darwin for interpreting evolution and chance wuithin evolution in an entirely reactive way. He admires Lamarck because Lamarck foretold the existence of a truely active plastic force, primary in relation to adaptations:a force of metapmorphosis.For Nietzsche, as for energetics, energy which is capable of transforming itself is called "noble." (p.42)