From: "Nate Holdren" <nateholdren-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: de- and re-territorialization
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:50:50 -0400


Thomas,
Can you (and/or another list member, maybe Lowe? Arianna?) explain what 
"deterritorializing
apparatus of rule" means in the Hardt quote?  I think I get the decentered 
part.
I've read some Deleuze (and understood less) but not the bits about 
deterritorializing and reterritorializing.
I've heard these terms used a lot and find them mystifying. I know things 
will eventually be clearer when I read more Deleuze, but that'll be a while 
and any explication is much appreciated.

best wishes,
Nate




>From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: AUT: Difference of Concept: Empire & Imperialism
>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:44:14 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I haven't been following this thread closely, but I
>thought this entry by Michael Hardt in the "Lessico
>Postfordista" might help contrast the concept of
>"Empire" and "Imperialism".
>(Note, Hardt pulled a lot of this verbatim from the
>book "Empire")
>
><<The decline in the sovereignty of the nation-states
>and their increasing inability to regulate economic
>and cultural exchanges is in fact one of the primary
>symptoms of the coming of Empire.  The primary factors
>of production and exchange- money, technology, human
>resources, merchandise- cross national borders with
>ever increasing ease; hence, the nation-state has
>less and less power to regulate these flows and impose
>its authority.  Even the most dominant nation-states
>should no longer be thought of as supreme and
>sovereign authorities, either outside or even within
>their own borders.
>
>The boundaries defined by the modern system of
>nation-states were fundamental to European colonialism
>and economic expansion: the territorial boundaries of
>the nation-state delimited the center of power from
>which rule was exterted over external foreign
>territories through a system of channels and barriers
>that alternately facilitated and obstructed the flows
>of production and circulation.  Imperialism was really
>an extension of the sovereignty of the European
>nation-states beyond their own boundaries.
>
>By Empire, however, we understand something altogether
>different from "imperialism".  In contrast to
>imperialism, Empire establishes no territorial center
>of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries or
>barriers.  It is a decentered and deterritorializing
>apparatus of rule that progressively incorporates the
>entire global realm within its open, expanding
>frontiers....
>
>
>
>
>====>Unlike its unruly city counterpart, the suburban body has been wholly 
>domesticated and one can say that the suburbs consitute a huge petting zoo, 
>with the residents' bodies providing the stock of furry mammals.  -JG 
>Ballard "Project for a Glossary  of the Twentieth Century"
>
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