Lines of Flight- Deleuze

‘Line of flight’ is a concept used by Deleuze to explain rhizomatic thinking and the creation of paths or journeys of escape from the apparatus of capture found in the state formation. The apparatus of the state is primarily concerned with coding and inscribing all bodies. Lines of flight are attempts at deterritorialisation, or to escape the striated space of the state and move into smooth space. Striated space is confined space, but very loosely smooth space are spaces of freedom, without instrinsic properties and without pre-defined direction. To take an everyday example, think of young people who skateboard on the road, or people who ride bikes over walls and street stairs. In these simple examples they are deterritorialising the striated space established by the apparatus of capture, appropriating it for creative ends and ‘becoming something altogether different’. In other words, they are creating the conditions for smooth space whereby free action has the potential to occur.


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