The Schema of the West and the Apparatus of Capture
Variations on Deleuze and Guattari
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13111237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gavin Walker (0000-0001-8948-4790, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-235 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deleuze and Guattari Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-9777 • E-ISSN: 2398-9785 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/dlgs.2018.0304 |
| OpenAlex | W2800563354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
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
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |