Nomadology by Deleuze & Guattari
“There is therefore, and this is the third point, a significant difference between the spaces: sedentary space is striated, by walls, enclosures and roads between enclosures, while nomad space is smooth, marked only by ‘traits’ that are effaced and displaced with the trajectory. Even the lamella of the desert slide over each other, producing an inimitable sound. The nomad distributes himself in a smooth space, he occupies, inhabits, holds that space; that is his territorial principle. It is therefore false to define the nomad movement. Toynbee is profoundly right to suggest that the nomad is on the contrary, he who does not move.”
—Deleuze & Guattari, 1980
