ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the usage of concepts of Deleuze and Guattari in border studies, political geography, and international relations. It introduces the method of Deleuze and Guattari. The chapter deals with a new relation of freedom and control regarding the state and state borders. Assemblages are characterized through their vertical axes, through deterritorialization and reterritorialization cutting across the aspects of the assemblage. 'Then on a vertical axis, the assemblage has both territorial sides, or reterritorialized sides, which stabilize it, and cutting edges of deterritorialization, which carry it away'. The state, as Deleuze and Guattari conceptualize it, is an assemblage that constitutes its separate consistencies. It is territorial in the sense that it overcodes the variables and produces depth from elements, which are flat, have no essence. The assemblage produces concentric circles - different layers of a circular structure are made to align.