Vector of Exiting

 
Fear has been an unwelcome companion of people since we evolved into humans, and possibly even earlier. As a result of nature, Humans have suffered from a fear of illness, plague, natural disasters and other humans. Unfortunately, it is this last fear – between humans – which has generated injustices and established hierarchies. Fear is inherent to the human condition, one that our contemporary society has made a business out of. The concept of national security moves vast sums of money every year and creates a market in which military enterprise, macro prisons, surveillance and all possible types of security systems imaginable flourish.

Deterritorialize and territorialize are two philosophical concept created by Deluze and Guattari that define the act of leaving a territory and the adaptation of oneself to a new territory, which in turn conceptualize the idea of territory itself. For Deleuze and Guattari it is only the vector of exiting, in oder words to move from one territory to another, that enables the individual to become aware of the boundaries of two spaces.

“There is no territory without a vector of exiting the territory; there is no exiting the territory, that is deterritorialization, without at the same time an effort of reterritorializing oneself elsewhere, on something else”.

Gilles Deleuze, L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (1988-1989)

These security systems appear essential for both, private and public sectors. We find them installed at the entrances of public buildings, business offices, airports, subways or train stations. They are already part of our contemporary landscape, but become also a tool to monitor people movements as well as new borders that redefine space.