Levi on difference

Levi makes another post on his view that to be means to make a difference. But then he adds a clarification that makes him seem closer to my position and further from Latour’s than I had thought:

“In short, the phrase ‘making difference’ should not be elided into the phrase ‘making a difference to…’ Even if a being is not observed, even if a being does not act on any other being, it nonetheless produces differences purely in and through its being. It is for this reason that I claim that objects are activities or doings.”

But then, with his later Deleuzian point that “difference or intensity is the unequal in itself” he seems to differ (no pun intended) from my position again. I’m looking forward to reading the whole of his new book to try to figure out exactly where the disagreement lies.