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Re: AUT: de- and re-territorialization

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<P>Nate, </P>
<P>It's a bit difficult for me to answer your question fully because I've left a good deal of my books in the States. But, if you don't mind a rudimentary explanation, I can give you one here. </P>
<P>Territoriality, and territorialization refers to a concept D &amp; G appropriated and augemented from Konrad Lorenz. You should take a look at Anti-Oedipus if you get the chance. The complexity of the terms can only make sense if you keep in mind they are speaking of human activity in terms of both a dynamic psychological and ethological perspective. For on the one hand, if you think about animals who mark their territory, that display of behavior and keeping organization of their territory (their marked boundary of property, familiarity etc) is a display of their territoriality no? On the other hand, perhaps you can conceive of the territorialization of things like our bodies, of certain way of organizing our fashion and sexual behavior. If I've lived my entire like in a small village and haven't been exposed to much, when external flows of culture, commerce, people come in and show me that the world has all of these other things that look better than what I knew before, both my knowing and my way of being is being deterritorialized (insofar as their is a loss of the former codification) and my knowing and being is being reterritorialized around these new codes. What Capitalism does so well is move in on these deterritorialized codes. While, traditionally societies want to maintain their codes and territorialization over their people, Capitalism not only desires this deterritorialization but lives upon it. </P>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;From: Nate Holdren <NATEHOLDREN@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: Re: AUT: de- and re-territorialization
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:13:35 -0400
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Hi Lowe-
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Thanks for your response. I still don't get it, unfortunately. Maybe
<DIV></DIV>&gt;I'm just thick from lack of downtime lately.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Please explain what 'territoriality' means when you say
<DIV></DIV>&gt;"Deterritorializing refers to its process of removing the
<DIV></DIV>&gt;territoriality of one mechanism or process in the capitalist chain
<DIV></DIV>&gt;and capitals ventual reterritorialisation with another mechanism or
<DIV></DIV>&gt;process."
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Sorry to be a bother - the vocabulary is quite suggestive and
<DIV></DIV>&gt;interesting but I'd like to grasp it more thoroughly. Perhaps an
<DIV></DIV>&gt;example would help?
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;best,
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Nate
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