A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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eciprocal reterritorialization means that capitalism establishes boundaries and<br />
territorialities that are conducive to the colonizers’ market. This view reveals the authors’<br />
adherence to rather simplistic ideas of the exploitative metropolis and the exploited<br />
periphery. Nevertheless, this notion represents yet another engagement with the issue of<br />
capitalism’s role in the world system advanced by many scholars of colonialism and<br />
capitalism. 51<br />
Deleuze and Guattari’s theories also pertain to the world history topic of<br />
colonialism. Though colonialism does not figure in their work greatly, Deleuze and<br />
Guattari do discuss colonialism in the context of hegemonic paradigms. 52 The<br />
comparison with their other theories also reveals how colonization can be an excellent<br />
example of schizophrenic connection, as well as deterritorializing and rhizomatic<br />
movement. Trans-cultural interaction and transformation feature largely in both<br />
deterritorialization and colonialism. As well, the increasing power of the economic<br />
system in their idea of the state-capitalism relationship has obvious repercussions in<br />
colonialism. Although Nicholas Thomas believes that “psychoanalytical” (by which he<br />
means deconstructive) approaches to colonialism cannot bear fruit, the authors’ rejection<br />
of the tools of orthodox psychoanalysis and literary deconstruction renders their theory an<br />
adaptation of psychoanalysis that can more accurately render the colonial past. 53 This is<br />
because their sociological and heterogeneous psychoanalysis holds benefit for world<br />
history in its research into the universal human condition. 54<br />
A crucial facet of colonial studies is the centre-periphery debate, focused upon<br />
respective arguments over the driving force of colonial actions, either motivated by the<br />
metropolis or by the periphery. In Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of the relationship,<br />
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