Introduction

This chapter introduces the central proposal of the book, which is to unontologize modes of settler subjectivity by unsettling and deconstructing the logic of settlement that serves as what Deleuze and Guattari call an apparatus of capture. The chapter defines the process of settlement as an apparatus of capture and how the book intends to engage settlering as a machinic process that opens and forecloses the capacities of living bodies as they are subjected to modes of social organization and disorganization. This chapter uses a deconstructive approach to social logics as the lens of analysis. We introduce the idea that morality will not be a driving impetus for this project. The project of settlement is not fundamentally lacking in any kind of moral justification. Instead, the book is concerned with how the imposition of a moral framework extends and legitimates binary settler logic.