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Amechanon, Vol. I / 2016-2018, ISSN: 2459-2846

Chess have, like all structures of statement, a «magician-king» and a «jurist-priest» itself:
the force that keep players on the game, that make them stay on the rules is the possibility

(and the desire) of winning. Chess’s «Varuna» is the victory. Deleuze and Guattari say that
this first pole of the State operates by immediate capture: it bonds, and that’s all. In the

other hand, the rules of the game take the role of «Mitra», the jurist, the pole that submit
an army to institutional logic and convert it to a piece of the apparatus.

We could show how tourism, in opposition to travel, configures a statement structure or
how school in its common sense also could be a State apparatus. But to get to the body

question it becomes more important to look to another issue concerning the travel: the
language. Traveling, as we were saying, has to do with meeting with the difference, the

foreign, and more than that, to be oneself a foreigner. It is by being out, in contact with
the strangeness, that philosophical thinking can emerge. That experience often involve

misunderstanding or, in other words, not being able to speak some language.

But what we are calling language? This image Deleuze and Guattari bring up to speak about

the State can be a guideline to analyze what happens when we do speak (and moreover,
when we do what we commonly call thinking). We have a notion of what is language based
on a mechanism of understanding. To communicate with others, it is necessary to play a

kind of game, in what there are some rules and where all movements steps towards an

accord, a common purpose. Our concept of a language, therefore, basically is based on a
magician-king and a jurist-priest, being them the true and the dialogue, respectively. Which
means that what we are calling language actually is a striated space, it is the image of the

State (and vice versa).

Language in this sense is what we created to give sense to the world. We take all the

multiplicity, the lines and vectors that make events possible, the infinite velocity, the lines
of flight, the nomadic, aionic, savage forces of the world and stuck all of this in a stated

structure, on a space where there is some parameter and accord. That is what we call
language, and by extension, that is what we use to call thinking. This way of seeing

language is related to a dualist, transcendent way of looking and thinking about the world.
It is enough only to think of a sedentary, stated, striated language.

If we want to think that travel is a war-machine, that the traveler is in or is creating a
nomadic, smooth, immanent plane, so we must think about how language and thinking

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