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the notions of labour and independent capital are essentially movements of
deterritorialization. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 453.
33 John Protevi, Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic (London:
Athlone Press, 2001), 193-194. Judy Purdom correctly observes that capitalism is
intrinsically an “anti-systemic” deterritorialization in that it counters the power of the
state. Judy Purdom, “Postmodernity as a Spectre of the Future: The Force of Capital and
the Unmasking of Difference,” in Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer ed.
Keith Ansell Pearson, (London: Routledge, 1997), 119.
34 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 455. For example, Deleuze and Guattari
see monopoly capitalism as evolutionary: social production > state > market. Guattari,
239.
35 Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 225. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus,
454. Hardt and Negri, 61, 124.
36 Holland, “From Schizophrenia to Social Control,” 67.
37 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 353. The authors draw their idea of the
“megamachine” from: Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York: Harcourt,
Brace, 1934), 43.
38 An earlier work by Deleuze nonetheless contends that human nature itself can not be
understood through history: Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity, 44.
39 Holland, “Deterritorializing Deterritorialization,” 62. Deleuze and Guattari, A
Thousand Plateaus, 433-435.
40 The authors describe the purpose of history as to “translate a coexistence of becomings
into a succession.” The authors’ conception of “becomings” refers to a perpetual state of
change. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 221, 430. Deleuze and Guattari,
Anti-Oedipus, 195.
41 Ibid., 165.
42 Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity, 6, 105.
43 Elizabeth A. Clark, History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), 28.
44 Young, White Mythologies, vii.
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