Nomadology: The War Machine (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Brian Massumi (Translator)

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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers (the army) are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of the state.

In this daring essay inspired by Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers (the army) are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of the state. In the same vein, nomadic science keeps infiltrating royal science, undermining its axioms and principles. Nomadology is a speedy, pocket-sized treatise that refuses to be pinned down. Theorizing a dynamic relationship between sedentary power and "schizophrenic lines of flight," this volume is meant to be read in transit, smuggled into urban nightclubs, offices, and subways. Deleuze and Guattari propose a creative and resistant ethics of becoming-imperceptible, strategizing a continuous invention of weapons on the run. An anarchic bricolage of ideas uprooted from anthropology, aesthetics, history, and military strategy, Nomadology carries out Deleuze's desire to "leave philosophy, but to leave it as a philosopher."

  • ISBN10 1873176716
  • ISBN13 9781873176719
  • Publish Date 9 May 1994 (first published 1 June 1986)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 January 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint AK Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 147
  • Language English