100,000 LINES OF FLIGHT - A MACHINIC INTRODUCTION TO THE NOMAD THOUGHT AND SCRUMPLED GEOGRAPHY OF DELEUZE,GILLES AND GUATTARI,FELIX

What is space? What is spacing? And how does spacing itself hold toget her? The author pursues these questions, which continue to haunt and t ransfix geographers, by drawing upon the collaborative work of two exe mplary thinkers: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. What emerges from such an encounter is a fundamental shift in the way space, place, and spacing are configured; a shift which will have enormous implications for anyone concerned with unfolding the relationship between society a nd space. Particular emphasis is placed on the radicalization of relat ions, of the spacing of relations, and of relational space. Such a rad icalization effectively deconstructs the field of geography as we know it, and demands that we reconfigure both the world and our theoretica l-practices 'from the middle'. This yields a world of continuous varia tion, becoming, and chance, rather than one of constancy, being, and p redictability; and it is populated solely by haecceities, singularitie s, and events, strung together through joints, intervals, and folds. A ccordingly, a fractal world of infinite disadjustment, destabilization , and disjointure is what is meant by the term 'scrumpled geography', and it constitutes the horizon on which one should situate deconstruct ion, postmodernism, and poststructuralism more generally. Unfolding th e joints, intervals, and folds of such a world is precisely the task u ndertaken by Deleuze and Guattari. However, the author reworks their o wn undertaking by giving it a much more explicitly spatial inflexion a nd consistency. Thus, the paper not only clarifies the scrumpled geogr aphy embedded within the work of Deleuze and Guattari, it also demonst rates the revolutionary implications of a rigorously deconstructive an d poststructuralist consideration of space, place, and spacing.