Nomadology

In this daring essay inspired by Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattariredefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state,warriers (the army) are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authorityof the state. In the same vein, nomadic science keeps infiltrating royal science, undermining itsaxioms and principles. Nomadology is a speedy, pocket-sized treatise that refuses to be pinned down.Theorizing a dynamic relationship between sedentary power and "schizophrenic lines of flight," thisvolume is meant to be read in transit, smuggled into urban nightclubs, offices, and subways.Deleuzeand Guattari propose a creative and resistant ethics of becoming-imperceptible, strategizing acontinuous invention of weapons on the run. An anarchic bricolage of ideas uprooted fromanthropology, aesthetics, history, and military strategy, Nomadology carries out Deleuze's desire to"leave philosophy, but to leave it as a philosopher."