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D&G on maps
You know you’re in trouble when you trot out Deleuze and Guattari to provide clarity, but this segment seemed to elucidate something in regards to our discussion on “map v. picture” - especially the first sentence.
“What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed contact with the real. …The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived of as a work of art, constructed as a political action or as a meditation. A map has multiple entryways, as opposed to the tracing, which always comes back “to the same.” The map has to do with performance, whereas the tracing always involves an alleged ‘competence.’”
from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
