[[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] absolute det as something that benefits nothing real, no assemblage that is here Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 56 > Absolute deterritorialization is not defined as a giant accelerator; its absoluteness does not hinge on how fast it goes. It is actually possible to reach the absolute by way of phenomena of relative slowness or delay. Retarded development is an example. What qualifies a deterritorialization is not its speed (some are very slow) but its nature, whether it constitutes epistrata and parastrata and proceeds by articulated segments or, on the contrary, jumps from one singularity to another following anondecom-posable, non segmentary line drawing a metastratum of the plane of consistency.