striation: The Physical Model. For Deleuze and Guattari 1987 “The various models confirm a certain idea of striation: two series of parallels that intersect perpendicularly, some of which, the verticals, are more in the role of fixed elements or constants, whereas the others, the horizontals, are more in the role of variables. This is roughly the case for the warp and the woof, harmony and melody, longitude and latitude. The more regular the intersection, the tighter the striation, the more homogeneous the space tends to become; it is for this reason that from the beginning homogeneity did not seem to us to be a characteristic of smooth space, but on the contrary, the extreme result of striation, or the limit-form of a space striated everywhere and in all directions.”

striation and capitalism “at the complementary and dominant level of integrated (or rather integrating) world capitalism, a new smooth space is produced in which ‘capital’ reaches its ‘absolute’ speed, based on machinic components rather than the human component of labor. The multinationals fabricate a kind of deterritorialized smooth space in which points of occupation as well as poles of exchange become quite independent of the classical paths to striation.” Deleuze and Guattari 1987

Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. 1987  1440: The Smooth and the Striated in A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia trans Massumi, B. Continuum