Speculative Cartography 2: Deterritorialization (Techniques and Chronology)
"... this smooth, amorphous space is constituted by an accumulation of environments, and each accumulation defines a zone of indiscernibility proper to “becoming” (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus , p. 632) INTRODUCTION In this second part, we will analyze with concrete examples how extreme metal bands introduced speculative elements by applying specific techniques of deterritorialization , and how these elements moved from the marginal to the structural, from the decorative to the ontological. What in the 80s were atmospheric intros has today become the very body of many compositions. Metal no longer limits itself to deforming its language: it transcends it, generating non-Euclidean, rhizomatic forms based on dispersion, patternless repetition, and fusion with other aesthetic languages. This implies the application of Salazar’s Law : to shift the axis of perspective by raising the weight of a secondary symbol (the techniques of deterritorialization) to the same level ...