A Thousand Plateaus

Introduction

The second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, after Anti-Oedipus (1972), published by Éditions de Minuit in 1980. Instead of chapters it consists of fifteen “plateaus”, each headed by a date and meant to be readable in any order. The introductory plateau, “Rhizome”, contrasts hierarchical, tree-like thinking with networks in which any point can connect to any other. The plateaus range over linguistics, geology, music, the state and the “war machine” of nomads, using concepts such as “deterritorialisation”, “assemblage” and “becoming-animal”. The book has been taken up far beyond philosophy, in architecture, art theory, media studies and geography.

Connections

Builds on

• Anti-Oedipus1972 · Gilles Deleuze

Taken up in

• Cannibal Metaphysics2009 · Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

More works by Gilles Deleuze

• 1962Nietzsche and Philosophy
• 1968Difference and Repetition
• 1972Anti-Oedipus