TERM AND TRANSLATION

line of flight

ligne de fuiteline of flight

逃逸线 captures both flight from and escape out of a system’s coordinates; 飞行线 is the literal English-derived form, while 逃亡线 is a common Chinese variant.

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Atlas working translation

逃逸线

French term
ligne de fuite
English term
line of flight
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Variants and search terms

  • 逃脱线Simplified record
  • 逃亡线Simplified record
  • 逸出线Simplified record
  • 飞行线Simplified record
  • 逃逸線Traditional record
  • 逃脫線Traditional record
  • 逃亡線Traditional record
  • 逸出線Traditional record
  • line of flightCommon / non-Chinese record
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Conceptual boundary

A line of flight may create new connections or lead to self-destruction, fascist capture, or rapid reterritorialization; its direction follows from the concrete process.

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Sources and translations

  1. 01
    Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille plateaux, Minuit, 1980

    French primary text for assemblage, rhizome, becoming, territory, and the body without organs.

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    《资本主义与精神分裂(卷2):千高原》,姜宇辉译,上海书店出版社,2010

    Published Mainland translation used to compare Deleuze–Guattari terminology.

  3. 03
    “德勒兹词典”中文社区语料

    Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.

    Open external source ↗
  4. 04
    Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1

    Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.

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