A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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21 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University<br />
Press, 2000), 347.<br />
22 Noyes thinks deterritorialization is brought about by the twin forces of money and an<br />
amorphous “signifier,” in: John Noyes, Colonial Space: Spatiality in the discourse of<br />
<strong>German</strong> South West Africa 1884-1915 (Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic, 1992),<br />
92. The societal foundation of deterritorialization is illustrated in its transformative<br />
influence upon society. Eugene W. Holland, “From Schizophrenia to Social Control,” in<br />
Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture, ed. Eleanor<br />
Kaufman, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998): 66. Patton takes this<br />
even further and contends that utopian deterritorialization means that society will always<br />
change for the better. Patton, Deleuze and the Political, 9, 136.<br />
23 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 3-25.<br />
24 Ibid., 10, 88.<br />
25 Ibid., 456. Yet the authors also insist that the earth itself is not deterritorialized by<br />
global connections, only by deterritorializations where territory is destroyed and then reestablished<br />
at specific sites and locations.<br />
26 Michel Foucault, “Space, Knowledge, and Power,” in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul<br />
Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984), 251-255.<br />
27 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 204.<br />
28 Ibid., 292.<br />
29 Ibid., 220. The movements of deterritorialization mean that society is also perpetually<br />
under threat by deterritorializations of radical desire that clash with the social<br />
requirement for conformity, according to Attias in: Bernardo Alexander Attias, “To Each<br />
Its Own Sexes? Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of Molecular Revolution,” in<br />
Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture eds. Eleanor<br />
Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), 100.<br />
30 Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 193.<br />
31 For this reason, the state is not territorial for it performs a deterritorialization,<br />
consolidating the earth into a “forced aggregate of coexistence” instead of the unbound<br />
interaction of territories amongst themselves. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand<br />
Plateaus, 219, 453.<br />
32 Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 186. The authors see the development of private<br />
property under capitalism as a vast increase in the potential for deterritorialization since<br />
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