The space of nomad thought is qualitatively different from State space. Air against earth. State space is “striated” or gridded. Movement in it is confined by gravity to a horizontal plane, and limited by the order of that plane to preset paths between fixed and identifiable points. Nomad space is “smooth”, or open ended. One can rise up at any point and move to any other. Its mode of distribution is the ‘nomos’ : arraying oneself in an open space (hold the street), as opposed to the ‘logos’ of entrenching oneself in a closed space (hold the fort).
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| — | Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari “Capitalism and Schizophrenia: A Thousand Plateaus” (via wedesireabridge) |
