A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...

Chapter One
1 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. Deterritorialization pervades several of
Deleuze’s other books as well as its partner volume: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia.
2 Deleuze and Guattari incorporate scholarship from varied fields, from literary work by
Antonin Artaud to the psychiatrist R.D. Laing to the anthropology of Gregory Bateson.
3 The primacy of Nietzsche in Deleuze lead Best and Kellner to identify Deleuze as a
“Nietzschean-inspired post-Kantian” and Patton to identify an “anarcho-Nietzschean”
philosophy. Steven Best and Douglas Kellner, Postmodern Theory: Critical
Interrogations (London: MacMillan and Guilford Press, 1991), 80. Paul Patton,
“Marxism and Beyond: Strategies of Reterritorialization,” in Marxism and the
Interpretation of Culture eds. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg. (Basingstoke: Macmillan
Education, 1988), 124.
4 Yet it is important to remember that Guattari rejected many of the fundamental tenets of
psychoanalysis. Pierre-Félix Guattari, The Guattari Reader ed. Gary Genosko (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1996).
5 Pearson especially thinks Deleuze rejects transcendence and successfully engages in
interpretation through his empirical analyses. Keith Ansell Pearson, Deleuze and
Philosophy: The Difference Engineer (London: Routledge, 1997), 4. Lambert, 153. This
is the “critical” philosophy that Deleuze relates to an analytical interaction with everyday
life.
6 Sherry Turkle, Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud’s French Revolution (New York: Basic
Books, 1978), 149. Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 290.
7 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 216.
8 The rhizome resembles the rhizomatic growth of a seedling where all are connected but
not causally linked. Because of this, it is an “acentred, nonhierarchical, nonsignifying
system” without a beginning or end, central direction or memory, and functioning
through expansion, conquest, variation and capture. Ibid., 7, 11, 12, 21.
9 Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990),
100, 110-111. The author’s italics are retained.
10 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 15, 23, 381-384. Deleuze, Difference and
Repetition, 285. John K. Noyes, “Nomadism, Nomadology, Postcolonialism: By Way of
Introduction,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6, no. 2 (June
2004): 159-168.
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