Key Concepts Flashcards
What are the two axes of an assemblage?
- Horizontal axis deals with “machinic assemblages of bodies, actions, and passions” and “a collective assemblage of enunciation” (ATP: 88)
- Vertical axis has both “territorial sides, which stabilise it, and cutting edges of deterritorialisation, which carry it away” (ATP: 88)
What do assemblages produce?
Affects and effects
What is the result of a productive assemblage?
- New means of expression
- New spatial organisation
- New institution
- New behaviour
- New becoming
What are the dimensions of the idea of becoming?
- Not one dimensional
- At least two fold and is invariably manifold
(Doel, 1999)
How does belonging belong to geography?
Due to the orientations, directions, entries and exists of the concept
(Doel, 1999)
How does becoming relate to immanence?
- Becoming incarnates the thought of radical immanence (Thiele, 2016)
- Incarnates, actualises and expreses immanence (but without having any priority over it)
- Becoming brings to life immanence in the way that “a draamtic performance can bring to life the characters and themes of a play script” (Mackenzie and Porter, 2011)
How does D&G describe the border?
“Fuzzy diaphoanous edge of a multiplicity” (ATP: 245-6)
What do D&G contrast the process of bordering to?
Contrast to the hard edge of the boundary between states of beings
(Bonta and Protevi, 2004)
What is beyond the borderline?
The Anomalous, populated by patrolling forces that keep multiplicity and in motion
What is the “fiber” in relation to the border?
- String or continuous networks of lines connecting each borerline to its neighbours, threading multiplicities together
- Waves represent the borderlines between multiplicities
What is the boundary?
- The line between an interior and exterior, or between two states of being
- In some fixed rather than flucating or in free play
- Thus opposed to the border
(Bonta and Protevi, 2004)
What is deterritorialisation?
Process of leaving home, of altering your habits, of learning new tricks
How are the processes of territory formation of de/reterritorialisation inextricably entagled in any social field?
- “The merchant buys in a territory, deterritorialises products into commodites, and it is reterritorialised onto commercial circuits” (WP: 68)
- Two are never static but are in continuous movement in connection to global fluxes (Menatti, 2015)
What are the four types of deterritorialisation?
- Relative in so far as it concerns only movements within the actual order of things; retain the possibility of reterritorialisation
- Relative deterritorialisation is negative when the deterritorialised element is immediately subjected to reterritorialisation which obstruct its line of flight
- It is positive when the light of flight prevails over secondary reterritorialisations
- Absolute deterritorialisation are marked by the impossibility of being territorialised again
What does ‘a new earth’ entail?
Entails new human relationships to the creative potentials of material systems to form consistencies, war machines or rhizomes from a variety of means (Parr, 2010)
