Earth (n.) is always leaving every territory on the spot, like crayfish setting off in file along the sea floor or pilgrims riding a celestial line of flight.
The Earth (n.) remains meaningless without a will capable of affirming it — and what does that will want? 'The weightless...'
The Earth (n.) is the close embrace in which the forces of the territory and the forces of chaos clasp in hand-to-hand combat — a grove where everything is decided.
The Earth (n.) can be striated, unlike water, air, wind, and subsoil; the other elements bear rent only through their emplacement on land.
The Earth (n.) is the primitive, savage unity of desire and production: the great unengendered stasis on which desire becomes bound to its own repression.
The Earth (n.) made new lies neither behind nor ahead: it coincides with desiring-production carried through, a process always already complete as it goes — "the earth will one day become a place of healing."
The Earth (n.) is not the opposite of deterritorialization but deterritorialization par excellence — the glacial, the material through which humans tap cosmic forces.