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Full Idea
The wasp becomes part of the orchid's reproductive apparatus at the same time as the orchid becomes the sexual organ of the wasp. …There are becomings where a man and an animal only meet on the trajectory of a common but asymmetrical deterritorialization.
Gist of Idea
A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid)
Source
Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.2
A Reaction
[second bit compressed] The point here is to illustrate 'deterritorialization', a term which Deleuze got from Guattari. It seems to be where the margins of your being become unclear. Recall the externalist, anti-individualist view of mind.
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