Nomadology

“Nomad science does not have the same relation to work as royal science. Not that the division of labor in nomad science is any less thorough; it is different. We know of the problems States have always had with journeymen’s associations, or compagnonnages , the nomadic or itinerant bodies of the type formed by masons, carpenters, smiths, etc. Settling, sedentarizing labor power, regulating the movement of the flow of labor, assigning it channels and conduits, forming corporations in the sense of organisms, and, for the rest, relying on forced manpower recruited on the spot (corvee) or among indigents (charity workshops)— this has always been one of the principal affairs of the State, which undertook to conquer both a band vagabondage  and a body nomadism” – Nomadology: The War Machine. Gilles Deleuze. Félix Guattari..

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