67.
Walking through walls. (Israeli military) Shimon Naveh, who
“directs the Operational Theory Research Institute,” and who explained the
importance of Deleuze and Guattari to his work: Several of the concepts
in A Thousand Plateaus became instrumental for us… Most important was
the distinction they have pointed out between the concepts of “smooth” and
“striated” space… In the IDF we now often use the term “to smooth out space”
when we want to refer to operation in a space as if it had no borders…We want
to confront the “striated” space of traditional, old-fashioned military practice
with smoothness that allows for movement through space that crosses any borders
and barriers. Eyal Weizman ‘Lethal Theory’