Translation of: Mille plateaux, v. 2 of Capitalisme et schizophrénie.

A companion volume to Anti-Oedipus : capitalism and schizophrenia.

Includes Bibliographical references and Index.

Plateaus is required reading for Assange fans and enemies, as well as those who don't give a fig but carry a Master or Visa card or just have a particular bent for Continental theory. According to Deleuze and Guattari Western thought is dominated by a structure of knowledge they call aboresence. This way of knowing is tree-like, vertical, and centralized. For instance, in biology, we have Linnean taxonomies. In chemistry, we have Porphyrian trees. In linguistics we have Chomskyan sentence trees. Did they say Western? In China we have centralized, hierarchical government and Internet censorship. Such trees show up worldwide, not only in the fields of biology, botany, linguistics, and anatomy, but also in philosophy, where we find metaphysical trees, theological treess, gnostic trees, The World Tree . . .__GoodReads.com