Line of flight

Line of flight

A line of flight or line of escape is a concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and used extensively in his work with Felix Guattari. In the first chapter of the second volume of their "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" project, "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980), the concept is used to define a "rhizome":

Multiplicities are defined by the outside: by the abstract line, the line of flight or deterritorialization according to which they change in nature and connect with other multiplicities. The plane of consistency (grid) is the outside of all multiplicities. The line of flight marks: the reality of a finite number of dimensions that the multiplicity effectively fills; the impossibility of a supplementary dimension, unless the multiplicity is transformed by the line of flight; the possibility and necessity of flattening all of the multiplicities on a single plane of consistency or exteriority, regardless of their number of dimensions. [Deleuze and Guattari (1980, 9-10).]

In Manuel De Landa's book "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy", the Line of Flight is described as an operator which transcends the real and ascends to the virtual. It is used as a synonym with Deleuze's terms "Dark Precursor" (from his "Difference and Repetition" (1968), "desiring machine" and "Quasi-Cause" (both from the first volume of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", "Anti-Œdipus" (1972)).

References

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* Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1972. "Anti-Œdipus". Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 1 of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of "L'Anti-Oedipe". Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0826476953.
* ---. 1975. "Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature". Trans. Dana Polan. Theory and History of Literature 30. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1986. Trans. of "Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure". Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0816615152.
* ---. 1980. "A Thousand Plateaus". Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 2 of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of "Mille Plateaux". Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0826476945.
* Guattari, Félix. 1984. "Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics". Trans. Rosemary Sheed. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0140551603.
* ---. 1992. "Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm". Trans. Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1995. Trans. of "Chaosmose". Paris: Editions Galilee. ISBN 0909952256.
* ---. 1995. "Chaosophy". Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). ISBN 1570270198.
* ---. 1996. "Soft Subversions". Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Trans. David L. Sweet and Chet Wiener. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). ISBN 1570270309.
* Massumi, Brian. 1992. "A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari". Swerve editions. Cambridge, USA and London: MIT. ISBN 0262631431.

External links

* [http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/kellner/deleuze.html Deleuze & Guattari on the Rhizome, University of Minnesota Press, 1987]


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