A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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limited to abstract academic investigations, for both authors stress the applicability of<br />
their ideas to the examination of human relations. 5<br />
There are three essential elements in immanent human interaction which provide<br />
the foundation of deterritorialization: schizoanalysis, rhizome and nomadology.<br />
Schizoanalysis lies at the heart of the two books of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.<br />
Schizoanalysis rejects Freud’s and Lacan’s psychoanalysis in favour of a varied,<br />
fragmentary or “schizophrenic” approach to the examination of human social interaction<br />
and power structures like colonialism. 6 This method of analysis opposes the notion of a<br />
separated subject and object by linking the human intrinsically to society. By analysing<br />
how social structures interact, the two authors work toward notions of un-totalizable and<br />
indivisible entities. 7 These relationships involve a model of diverse entities in a<br />
connective synthesis.<br />
Connected with schizoanalysis is Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphor of the rhizome<br />
root system and the rhizomatic character of all human connections. Deleuze and Guattari<br />
use the rhizome as an ideological and political structure to escape the rigid and sedentary<br />
formations of the monad, the dialectic and the state. In the rhizome, actions occur<br />
transversally, parataxically and non-hierarchically. 8 Through rhizomatics, there is a<br />
perpetual “continuum of singularities” where there is no determinism, no beginning, no<br />
end, no singularity, and no hierarchy. 9 In their rhizomatic view of the world, Deleuze<br />
and Guattari find humans connected in multiple, inchoate and inter-connected ways;<br />
much like the networks and power dynamics of colonial relations. Finally, the rhizome<br />
metaphor is designed to provoke the reconsideration of relationships.<br />
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