A Thousand Plateaus is the second volume of Deleuze and Guattari’s work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The title of each main chapter, or “plateau”, has a date attached to it, e.g. 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture.
Each date “corresponds to the point at which that particular dynamism found its purest incarnation in matter” (p.iv).
I couldn’t find any resource that connected each date to an event, so here’s my guesses:
| 1914: One or Several Wolves? | Freud completed his case study on the Wolf-Man |
| 10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) | Start of the Neolithic period |
| November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics | Germany’s switched to the Rentenmark |
| 587 B.C.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs | Second Temple period |
| November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? | Date of Anton Artaud’s radio broadcast To Have Done with the Judgement of God |
| Year Zero: Faciality | Birth of Jesus of Nazareth |
| 1874: Three Novellas, or “What Happened? | Publication of Les Diaboliques |
| 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity | Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany |
| 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming Imperceptible… | “From 1730 to 1735, all we hear about are vampires” (p.237) |
| 1837: Of the Refrain | Charles Darwin began speculating his theory of evolution |
| 1227: Treatise on Nomadology: — The War Machine | Genghis Khan seiged Xia’s capital, Yinchuan |
| 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture | Period of Çatalhöyük; Neolithic revolution? |
| 1440: The Smooth and the Striated | Portugal started the slave trade with Africa |