Deterritorialization of Language in Deleuze and Guattari: From Order-Words to the Logic of Preference.

Abstract

In this text deterritorialization lines of language are investigated on the axis of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Beginning with Kynodontas, a film by Giorgios Lanthimos, the convergence between Nietzschean perspective and the plane of deterrritorialization concerning the nature of grammar and the system of signification which is produced by the order-words are re-read. Then, having regard to the series of deterritorialization presented by the conjunction of “and” which draws a flight from domination of signifier, Kafka’s minör literature and Herman Melville’s Bartleby’s logic of preference are studied as an experience of deterritorialization.