The Schema of the West and the Apparatus of Capture

Variations on Deleuze and Guattari

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13111237
AutoresGavin Walker (0000-0001-8948-4790, McGill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas210-235
Fecha de publicación2018-04-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDeleuze and Guattari Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2398-9777 • E-ISSN: 2398-9785
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/dlgs.2018.0304
OpenAlexW2800563354
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas8

Deleuze and Guattari's work opens theoretical and political possibilities for us by demonstrating that the boundary between ‘the West’ and the ‘non-West’ is itself a historically unstable epistemological inscription on the surface of the earth, but one that nevertheless retraces itself over and over again. They show us that our political possibilities exist precisely in the ‘non-West’, so long as we understand this term not in the sense of an existing supposedly ‘non-Western’ territory or ‘substance’, but rather as a ‘line of flight’ beyond the nation-state, the form in which the ‘original division’ and creation of the social relation called ‘the West’ continues to (re)produce itself. They thus demonstrate that the way out of the Eurocentric epistemological order lies precisely in clarifying how ‘the West’ was created as an effect of the capitalist axiomatic and maintained by the repetition of this paradoxical ‘commencement’ in the form of the ‘anthropological difference’, congealed into the modern nation-state. In the pursuit of this moment, we will investigate the question of how the social surface is territorialised and enclosed for capitalist accumulation, how the purely heterogeneous topology of the social comes to be inscribed with the traces of the apparatus of capture

Deleuze and Guattari · Inscribed figure · Schema (genetic algorithms · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political theory and Gramsci