SECTION:
Nomadism
Samuel Bradford Tabas (Department of Comparative Literature, New York University (NYU), New York City, USA)
The notion of the nomad, particularly as it is articulated in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix GuattariThe notion of the nomad, particularly as it is articulated in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, appears to offer a new way of concieving of natural right, and thus a new way of concieving of potential state structures particularly in these times of increasing globalization. In my work I have been tracing, largely through Deleuze and Spinoza, a logic that rejects the Hobbesian and Rousseauian notions of an absolute social contract in favor of one that is more fluid in structure, a conceptual contract of the most minimal sort, a nomadocracy. Spinoza appears to be moving towards a theory of this state in his unfinished Tractatus Politicus (which designates democracy as the ideal state, but ends before elaborating upon this claim), and I believe that Deleuze makes a contribution to the concept of the nomadocracy in his Traite de la nomadologie section of Mille Plateaux. While my overall work is rather long, I would be interested in presenting at the conference a section that examines the Spinoza-Deleuze model of sovereignty and social contract (nomadocracy) in contrast to the historically dominant models articulated in Hobbes and Rousseau.
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