Molecular philosophies remain expansions, masking the true implosive break

Evidence

This violence is unintelligible to us because our whole imaginary has as its axis the logic of expanding systems. It is indecipherable because undetermined. Perhaps it no longer even comes from the schema of indeterminacy. Because the aleatory models that have taken over from classical models of determination and causality are not fundamentally different. They translate the passage of defined systems of expansion to systems of production and expansion on all levels - in a star or in a rhizome, it doesn’t matter - all the philosophies of the release of energy, of the irradiation of intensities and of the molecularization of desire go in the same direction, that of a saturation as far as the interstitial and the infinity of networks. The difference from the molar to the molecular is only a modulation, the last perhaps, in the fundamental energetic process of expanding systems. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 248

Categorization

• XREF: Baudrillard lumps Deleuze’s rhizomes and molecular desire into the old expanding-system framework — a key fault line against the poststructuralist-canonical reading.
• QUESTION: Is this a fair reading of Deleuze’s molecular affirmations, or a strawman? Worth checking the primary text.