• CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    They're mangling Deleuze and Guattari. The example I understood was: when Che's image is taken and slapped on a t-shirt and sold, that image is deterritorialized from his original image/meaning of a radical revolutionary into a reterritorialization of just another image of commodity fetishism.

    Here's the wikipedia article. Explains it in a bit more detail than me, although someone who actually read A Thousand Plateau's (not me) could probably give a better answer.

    Edit: Which means the original tweet is fucking garbage lmao what the fuck does "pass over into the vast unsettled spaces in the West" even mean in this context.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Apparently the twitter thread was purposely severed, the original tweet said something about how the only sacred thing was "the preservation of inherited code", which is exactly what you think it is, transparent blovating about fascist ethnopolitics (because Nick Land's only currency is burying the same fascist ideas you already know behind metric tons of obscure philosophical terminology), then some user responded with "what about decoding and deterritorializing" presumably in jest.