Watch the Gap: The Shock of Application and Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Invading the Gap

We shall organize a reading through the holes in the text that are not the lapses, lacks, or unspoken contradictions of the text, but are literally holes in the text. We shall pursue another reading of the text, literally through the text, a reading no longer which would be linear but that would create other lines of pursuit. Nor would there be a privileged point of entry to this text; entry would be unexpected.

Did the military “authors” of this new interpretation also read Deleuze and Guattari’s intervening book, written between Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus? If they had, they would have found this paragraph at the entry of Deleuze and Guattari’s short book on Kafka:

How can we enter in Kafka’s work? This work is a rhizome, a burrow. The castle has multiple entrances whose rules of usage and whose locations aren’t very well known. The hotel in Amerika has innumerable main doors and side doors that innumerable guards watch over; it even has entrances and exits without doors. Yet it might seem that the burrow in the story of that name has only one entrance; the most the animal can do is dream of a second entrance that would serve only for surveillance. But this is a trap arranged by the animal and by Kafka himself; the whole description of the burrow functions to trick the enemy. We will enter, then, by any point whatsoever; none matters more than another, and no entrance is more privileged even if it seems an impasse, a tight passage, a siphon. We will be trying only to discover what other points our entrance connects to, what crossroads and galleries one passes through to link two points, what the map of the rhizome is and how the map is modified if one enters another point. Only the principle of multiple entrances prevents the introduction of the enemy, the Signifier and those attempts to interpret a work that is actually only open to experimentation. (3)


Whether or not the IDF read this text, they applied its methodology, but in an unexpected way, in that they were the enemy. The Palestinians thought according to the signifier, expecting entry through gates and passage through streets while the Israelis thought like the animal, invading through deceptive entrances thought not to exist.

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