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"...the State never ceases to decompose, recompose, and transform movement, or to regulate speed. The State as town surveyor, convertor, or highway interchange: the role of the engineer from this point of view. Speed and absolute movement are not without their laws, but they are the laws of the nomos, of the smooth space that deploys it, of the war machine that populates it. If the nomads formed the war machine, it was by inventing absolute speed, by being 'synonymous' with speed. And each time there is an operation against the State - insubordination, rioting, guerilla warfare, or revolution as act - it can be said that a war machine has revived, that a new nomadic potential has appeared, accompanied by the reconstitution of a smooth space or a manner of being in space as though it were smooth [...] It is in this sense that the response of the State against all that threatens to move beyond is to striate space. The State does not appropriate the war machine without giving even it the form of relative movement: this was the case with the model of the fortress as a regulator of movement, which was precisely the obstacles the nomads came up against, the stumbling block and parry by which absolute vortical movement was broken." [1.]
[1.]: Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, 'A Thousand Plateaus' (Trans. Brian Massumi), Chapter 12, '1227: 'Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine', London/NYC/Dublin, Bloomsbury Academic, 1988/2021
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