File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Mar.96, message 115


Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 05:12:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Elizabeth Harrison <sybil-AT-csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: territorializations


On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, andrew favell wrote:

> On Sat. March 16, Patricia T. Srebrnik wrote:
> 
> >Dear list members, sorry to ask such SIMPLE questions, but would
> >anyone be willing to help me out by explaining briefly the
> >concepts "deterritorialization," "reterritorialization," and
> >"nomadism"??
> >THANKS!

~Patricia, notice how your post has been deterritorialized

> >
> Patricia, nothing simple about those questions.

and reterritorialized on a new plane~

I think that answering those
> questions adequately is to tap into the crux of the D&G idea of becoming.
> However, I'm not sure if I personally can give a 'brief' explanation, but
> what the heck ... I'll give it a go. To explore ideas of
> 'territorialization' - that is re- and de-terr., consider this metaphor:
> Take ice and melt it.

> Nomadism refers then to this movement of territorializations 

for me nomad is what this d/gean stuff is all about
witness the gentle tipping of the assemblage by poets, rappers, and 
trekkies  

> 
> This is what enables D&G to write of 'becoming-other', 'becoming-dog', etc.
> Now I may have got it all confused, but this is my (mis)understanding of
> these concepts for whatever its worth.

becomingcrispinpiedpiper becomingflo

> Have fun!!
> 
and experiment~

> Andrew 
> Vancouver, BC
> 
> 
sleeplessinmilwaukee
sybil

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