Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Concepts of Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation as Glo...

In a rapidly changing world, the World Wide Web, transcontinentalflights, a plethora of telecommunication and spy satellites,constantly and incessantly encircling our planet, delivering picturesfrom and to every spot on earth, powerful agencies monitoring everymovement of any individual they wish to monitor, eavesdropping onevery word and sound emitted anywhere, there are no real borders,either in the physical or the metaphorical sense. That we have beenliving in a global village seems evident since at least the times ofMarshall McLuhan (1962) but today globalization is undoubtedly avital part of everybody’s culture everywhere in the world. Therefore,the aim of this paper is to explore the concept of deterritorialisation,formulated in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus (1972),as a decisive factor in the process of culture’s globalisation that we havebeen witnessing since the last decades of the 20th century.