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70 Mahmoud Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of
Late Colonialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 11. The two authors
repeatedly assert that individuals can give voice to their own desires, which leads Patton
to assert that the minority is imbued with special power to deterritorialize and change
dominant social codes. Patton, Deleuze and the Political, 7.
71 The term “postcolonial” is obviously used with some trepidation, given the multiple
interpretations of the word. In this context, postcolonial applies to recent theoretical
criticisms of older colonial histories. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern
Speak?” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg.
(Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1988), 273, 279, 286, 290.
72 Russell A. Berman, Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture
(Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 15-16, 229, 235, 237. Berman
reinforces the particular situation of German colonialism in: Ibid., 15. Homi K. Bhabha,
The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994). Robert J.C. Young,
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003),
392. Deleuze and Guattari also mirror the historicized and anthropological investigation
of colonialism that Thomas seeks in: Thomas, 4, 12, 192. Guha, History at the Limit of
World History.
73 Thomas, 15.
74 Bhabha, 94-95. This is the logical consequence of the postcolonial belief that the
colonial experience varied in different localities and thus postcolonial theory must be
similarly different.
75 Ibid., 37-38. This negotiation matches Deleuze’s idea of compatibility between all
entities, even contraries.
76 Passavant and Dean provide the linkage between poststructuralism and international
relations in: Passavant and Dean, 172. This conception of poststructuralism is informed
by: Young, White Mythologies, 1.
77 Patton and Protevi, 16. Brian Massumi, “Requiem for Our Prospective Dead (Toward
a Participatory Critique of Capitalist Power),” in Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in
Politics, Philosophy, and Culture eds. Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998) 53.
78 Thomas, ix-x.
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