Deterritorializing

Abstract

The disrupting capacity of naming the Anthropocene, has brought into view an emerging future and an everlasting inheritance littered with grief and loss. Territorialisation is the movement of major (dominant) forces associated with an apparatus of capture, codification of life and human behaviours that is part of the process of stratification. Deterritorialising forces or desires are those that break away when systems break down – as lines of flight – disrupting rigid formations and transforming relations in order to produce something different. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialisation provides a way to think about transformative processes and is significant in their web of ideas that make assemblage formations thinkable. Deterritorialisation activates potential, creativity and desires for becoming by means of associations with bodies of different kinds that are human and non-human.