A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...

11 The phrase “perpetual displacement” is from Gilles Deleuze, “Nomad Thought,” In
The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation ed. David B. Allison. (New
York: Dell, 1977), 146. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 23. It is likely that
Deleuze and Guattari base their conception of orthodox history upon a positivist and
empiricist history that many contemporary historians would disdain.
12 Deleuze, Logic of Sense, 122. Young, White Mythologies, 83.
13 Passavant and Dean, Empire’s New Clothes, 294. Deterritorialization is vital to the
two authors’ wider thought and has even led authors like Patton to remark that their entire
philosophy is “a philosophy of deterritorialization.” Paul Patton, Deleuze and the
Political (London: Routledge, 2000), 136. Deleuze, “Nomad Thought,” 144. Deleuze,
Difference and Repetition, 36, 118, 210, 272, 278, 281, 303.
14 The concept of deterritorialization originally comes from Lacan’s idea of the imprint of
maternal care on the child’s libido. Patton, Deleuze and the Political, 106.
15 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 508.
16 Ibid., 54. Robin Mackay illustrates the changes within deterritorialization well by
stating that as soon as the word leaves the written page, it is already doing
deterritorialization in: Robin Mackay, “Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Wildstyle in Free
Effect,” in Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer ed. Keith Ansell Pearson,
(London: Routledge, 1997), 264.
17 The authors refine this by stating that deterritorialization is governed by the “K.function”
which defines the deterritorialization but is transformed by the resulting
reterritorialization in: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 88-89, 142.
18 Ibid., 509.
19 Pearson, 197. Deterritorializing energies can be deconstructed into positive, negative,
relative and absolute deterritorializations. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus,
143, 145, 334, 510.
20 Though A Thousand Plateaus is premised against all forms of binary dichotomies,
several instances crop up throughout the text. Even within deterritorialization itself, a
binary exists where a major and minor are required to coexist. However, the two authors
are also careful to acknowledge that the two are not linked in: Deleuze and Guattari, A
Thousand Plateaus, 142-143, 306. Christopher L. Miller, “The Postidentitarian
Predicament in the Footnotes of A Thousand Plateaus: Nomadology, Anthropology and
Authority,” Diacritics 23, no. 3 (Autumn 1993): 30-32. Fredric Jameson, “Marxism and
Dualism in Deleuze,” in A Deleuzian Century? ed. Ian Buchanan, (Durham: Duke
University Press, 1999), 26-29.
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