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Full Idea
There is no history from the viewpoint of nomads, although everything passes through them, to the point that they are like the noumena or the unknowable of history.
Gist of Idea
Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable
Source
Gilles Deleuze (Many Politics [1977], p.107)
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.107
A Reaction
Nomads have the same place in society that indeterminate 'stuff' has in an object-orientated metaphysics. Deleuze seems to be romanticising nomads the way the late Victorians romanticised gypsies.
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