The nomadic-wild-animal myth mirrors capital’s deterritorialization.

Evidence

That animals wander is a myth, and the current representation of the unconscious and of desire as erratic and nomadic belongs to the same “order. Animals have never wandered, were never deterritorialized. A whole liberatory phantasmagoria is drawn in opposition to the constraints of modern society, a representation of nature and of beasts as savagery, as the freedom to “fulfill all needs,” today “of realizing all his desires” - because modern Rousseauism has taken the form of the indeterminacy of drive, of the wandering of desire and of the nomadism of infinitude - but it is the same mystique of unleashed, noncoded forces with no finality other than their own eruption. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459

Categorization

• XREF: Directly critiques Deleuze and Guattari’s nomadology and rhizome via the explicit ‘rhizome’ jab in the following paragraph; a major philosophical counterpoint. — connects to: The myth of the wandering animal mirrors rather than opposes capital — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459; Postmodern nomadism mirrors how multinational capital disavows its origins — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 219; Either divine or natural origin claims transform peoples into animal species. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 595

Broader Connections

• The myth of the wandering animal mirrors rather than opposes capital #expands (0.95) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459
• Postmodern nomadism mirrors how multinational capital disavows its origins #expands (0.90) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 219
• Either divine or natural origin claims transform peoples into animal species. #complicates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 595