In his book Foucault, Deleuze (1988) reads his own concept of the outside through Foucault's theory of power, so ideas about relations, forces, and resistances are crucial to constitute the outside of both method and thought. The outside is an important concept in Deleuzian thought and undergirds my argument for thinking without method in qualitative inquiry. Freedom from this reliance gives us a new starting place: the outside of method. Thinking without method relieves qualitative inquiry from the twin forms of epistemological imperatives of knowledge production and a conventional dependency on procedural method. The descriptive force of my approach here is to emphasize rhythmic movement within an open system: what I'm naming thinking without method. Thus, my intent is to take readers out of the dogmatic image of thought and into the conditions under which concepts are created and expressed. For Deleuze, this reliance on recognition renders thought bound to representation and stranded in a striated, universal space that crucifies difference. Deleuze (1994) claims that concept creation does not occur in the dogmatic image of thought, for ' the object of the concept, in itself or in relation to other objects, relies upon resemblance as a requirement of perceptual continuity ' (p. While the theme of this special issue is concept as/instead of method, my contribution is to provide an account of Deleuze's ' thought without image ' in which the production of concepts takes place.

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