ABSTRACT
In harnessing a Guattarian cartography of mutant coordinates, this chapter resingularises the aberrant act of hitchhiking as an ethico-aesthetic technique for re-mapping the lines between theory and field, such that fieldwork is itself resingularised as a generative geographical practice. In relaying a collection of minor tales of hitchhiking in England, which was part of a distributed experimental event, the chapter seeks to animate an ethos of hitchhiking Guattari, that is to say, taking theory for a ride. This is an ethos animated by questions of gentleness and earthing. In this account, to think with Guattari is to follow unexpected lines of flight, unforeseen encounters, and unqualified affects.
