Acknowledgements Note on Referencing Introduction: Thinking As a Nomad Readings of A Thousand Plateaus Reading A Thousand Plateaus Notes on the text Metaphysical Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus Introduction The Sedentary Distribution Criticisms of the Sedentary Distribution The Nomadic Distribution Change and the Diagram The Countersignifying Regime of Signs Conclusion Political Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus Introduction Transcendental Illusion and Political Organisation Molar and Molecular, Sedentary and Nomadic Binding and Surplus Labour The War Machine and Fascism The Politics of the Line of Flight Conclusion 1. Rhizome 1.1 Introduction (3-4) 1.2 The Root Book (5) 1.3 The Fascicular Root System (5-6) 1.4 Rhizome (6-7) 1.5 Principles of Connection and Heterogeneity (7-8) 1.6 Principle of Multiplicity (8-9) 1.

7 Principle of Asignifying Rupture (9-12) 1.8 Principle of Cartography and Decalcomania (12-16) 1.9 The East and the West (18-21) 1.10 Conclusion (21-24) 2. One or Several Wolves 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Unconscious (26-8) 2.3 The Wolf Man (28-30) 2.

4 Crowds, Packs, and Multiplicities (30-35) 2.5 Conclusion: Multiplicities in practice (35-8) 3. The Geology of Morals 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Simondon and Individuation 123 3.3 Hjelmslev and Double Articulation (42-44) 3.4 Double Articulation and Strata (40-42) 3.5 Cuvier, Geoffroy, and Darwin (45-49) 3.

6 ''Several Conclusions'' on Strata (49-57) 3.7 Content and Expression in Physical and Organic Strata (57-60) 3.8 The Linguistic Stratum (60-64) 3.9 Three Problems (64-71) 4. Postulates of Linguistics 4.1 Introduction: What are the Postulates of Linguistics? 4.2 Language is Informational and Communicational (75-85) 4.3 There is an Abstract Machine of Language That Does Not Appeal to Any ''Extrinsic'' Factor (85-91) 4.

4 There Are Constants or Universals of Language That Enable Us to Define It as a Homogeneous System (92-100) 4.5 "Language Can Be Scientifically Studied Only under the Conditions of a Standard or Major Language" (100-110) 5. On Several Regimes of Signs 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Pre-Signifying Regime of Signs (117-8) 5.3 Faciality (111-115) 5.4 The Signifying Regime of Signs (115-117) 5.5 The Countersignifying Regime (118) 5.

6 The Postsignifying Regime (119-134) 5.7 Mixtures and Transformations (134-140) 5.8 The Diagram (140-148) 6. How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 6.1 Introduction (149-150) 6.2 Spinoza and Us (153) 6.3 Masochism (155-161) 6.4 Spinoza and Bodies without Organs (151-3) 6.

5 The Cancerous BwO (162-4) 6.6 Conclusion: ''The BwO is an egg'' (164-6) 7. Faciality 7.1 Introduction (167-8) 7.2 Three False Origins of the Face (168-172) 7.3 Theorems of Deterritorialization, or Machinic Propositions (172-175) 7.4 Face and Landscape (175-186) 7.5 The Countersignifying Regime and the Face (186-191) 8.

Three Novellas, or ''What Happened?'' 8.1 Introduction (192-195) 8.2 First Novella: ''In the Cage,'' Henry James (195-8) 8.3 Second Novella: ''The Crack-Up,'' F. Scott Fitzgerald (198-200) 8.4 Third Novella: ''The Story of the Abyss and the Spyglass,'' Pierrette Fleutiaux (200-202) 8.5 Four Problems (202-207) 9. Micropolitics and Segmentarity 9.

1 Introduction 9.2 Primitive and Civilised Segmentarity (209-213) 9.3 Masses and Classes (213-222) 9.4 Concrete Machines and Abstract Machines (222-227) 9.5 Four Problems (227-229) 9.6 Fascism (213-215, 229-231) 10. Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible. 10.

1 Introduction 10.2 Memories of a Moviegoer (233) 10.3 Memories of a Naturalist (233-7) 10.4 Memories of a Bergsonian (237-9) 10.5 Memories of a Sorcerer I (239-243) 10.6 Memories of a Sorcerer II (243-248) 10.7 Memories of a Sorcerer III (248-252) 10.8 Memories of a Theologian (252-3) 10.

9 Memories of a Spinozist, I (253-256) 10.10 Memories of a Spinozist, II (256-260) 10.11 Memories of a Haecceity (260-5) 10.12 Memories of a Plan(e) Maker (265-272) 10.13 Memories of a Molecule (272-286) 10.14 Memories of the Secret (286-290) 10.15 Memories and Becomings, Points and locks (291-298) 10.16 Becoming-Music (299-309) 11.

Of the Refrain 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Refrain (310-312) 11.3 Milieus and Rhythms (313-314) 11.4 From Milieu to Territory (314-323) 11.5 Milieu, Territory, Cosmos (323-327) 11.6 Assemblages and the Problem of Consistency (327-337) 11.7 Classicism, Romanticism, and the Modern (337-347) 11.

8 Painting and Music (347-50) 12. Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Dumézil, Go, and Kleist (351-6) 12.3 Clastres and Societies against States (357-361) 12.4 Nomad Science (361-374) 12.5 Noology and the Image of Thought (374-380) 12.7 Three Aspects of the War Machine (380-387) 12.

8 Nomad existence necessarily implies the numerical elements of a war machine (387-394) 12.9 Nomad existence has for "affects" the weapons of a war machine (395-403) 12.10 How do the nomads invent or find their weapons? (403-415) 12.11 The War Machine and War (416-423) 13. Apparatus of Capture 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Dumézil and the Two Poles of the State (424-427) 13.3 Which Comes First? (427-437) 13.

4 Capture (437-448) 13.5 The State and its Forms (448-460) 13.6 Axiomatics and the Present Day Situation (460-473) 14. The Smooth and The Striated 14.1 Introduction 14.2 The Technological Model (475-477) 14.3 The Musical Model (477-8) 14.4 The Maritime Model (478-482) 14.

5 The Mathematical Model (482-488) 14.6 The Physical Model (488-492) 14.7 The Aesthetic Model: Nomad Art (492-500) 15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines 15.1 Introduction 15.2 S: Strata, Stratification (502-3) 15.3 A: Assemblages (503-5) 15.4 R: Rhizome (505-6) 15.

5 C: Plane of Consistency, Body without Organs (506-8) 15.6 D: Deterritorialization (508-10) 15.7 M: Abstract Machines (Diagram and Phylum) (510-14) Bibliography.