Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze argues, is by no means the “inventor of the famous phrase ‘God is dead.’ On the contrary, he is the first to believe this phrase to have no importance whatsoever as long as the human occupies the place of God. Nietzsche was trying to uncover something that was neither God nor Human, trying to give voice to these impersonal individuations and these pre-individual singularities … that’s what he calls Dionysos, or also the super-man.”