A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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where change is performed upon an entity. 15 However, Deleuze and Guattari reject<br />
reification and hypostatization by being careful to admit that the concept of<br />
deterritorialization does not motivate changes, only that it will “strictly determine their<br />
selection.” 16 Fundamentally, deterritorialization is enacted by the framing of a system, a<br />
movement away from the former system and construction of a new energy, removed from<br />
the original system. 17 Finally, because deterritorialization in one element can also<br />
provoke shared or combinative deterritorializations in other elements, deterritorialization<br />
is never singular, but exists rhizomatically in composites.<br />
The “always multiple and composite” nature of deterritorialization is central to its<br />
ability to represent the agent of change. 18 In deterritorialization, evolution and teleology<br />
are abandoned because of the myriad desires within entities, each containing the potential<br />
toward deterritorialization and each with relative degrees of deterritorialization, which<br />
renders progressive causality an impossibility. 19 Deterritorialization rejects the binary<br />
oppositions that Fredric Jameson and Christopher Miller identify, for it offers a more-<br />
nuanced vision of constitutive forces. 20 The fact that deterritorialization can be located<br />
within the dimensions of space, time and desire means that it functions as what Michael<br />
Hardt and Antonio Negri call “the primary force” through which human interaction<br />
makes itself manifest. 21 This contrasts with Noyes’ narrow vision of deterritorialization,<br />
but deterritorialization should also not be reified into concrete form. 22 Deleuze and<br />
Guattari maintain that their purpose is not to represent the world specifically through<br />
deterritorialization, but to connect social entities through the dominant characteristic of<br />
the world: deterritorialization. 23<br />
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