Deleuze and Philosophy by Ansell-Pearson Keith; Ansell-Pearson Keith;

Author:Ansell-Pearson, Keith; Ansell-Pearson, Keith; [KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Thus the relative deterritorialization’s supple movement to destratification, a cracking of the rigid, territorialized belts, is defined with a complementary reterritorialization. By critically juxtaposing relative deterritorialization with the elements of minor literature, this chapter situates the current political and literary voices emerging out of South Central Los Angeles. Despite its subscription to a signed subjectivity, Monster: The Autobiography of an LA Gang Member generates a collective assemblage that decodes the stratification of language into minoritarian politics of desire.3 This is the functioning element of becoming. Written from a California maximum security prison, Monster, which portrays mass movements within the grid of Los Angeles, illuminates the destratification of molecular becomings that are recaptured by the State apparatus of receding. The movement that oscillates between deterritorialization and reterritorialization allows for a mapping of becoming, even though population packs are in constant flux: ‘The two factors [code and territoriality] nevertheless have the same ‘subject’ in a stratum: it is populations that are deterritorialized and reterritorialized, and also coded and decoded’ (Deleuze and Guattari 1988:54). Shakur’s Monster presents the possibility of mapping heterogeneous multiplicities that are stratified through homogeneous power centres. This chapter discusses the heterogeneous, ecological niches that the strata uniformly attempt to recode in relation to Shakur’s minor literature.4 The process by which the strata solidify multiplicities is addressed, as well as the function of the minor in South Central Los Angeles. This locates not only the political turbulence of the West Coast, but the consequences resulting from institutionalized power structures engaged in the monitoring of masses that do not fit into the equation of the molar organization.5 With the influx of a periphery into the core area of Los Angeles, the current role of urban politics and minor literatures unleashes desire into the circuit of the city. The machinic process of becoming a peripheral minoritarian is unparalleled in Shakur’s autobiography, as in the following:

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