Another map on the Wall: Deleuze, Guattari and Freeman at the Iron Curtain.
This article draws on personal memory of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War to examine the checkpoint as a dispositive constituted by disparate elements, at the crossing of space, time and social representations. Relying on Deleuze and Guattari’s geophilosophy as outlined inWhat is Philosophy?andA Th...
| Published in: | Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 45 - 56 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2014
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