The below quote from Kant shows up rather nicely the undertaking of D&G
/A Thousand Plateaus/ which some may find of interest...
At first, her government, under the administration of the
/dogmatists/, was an absolute /despotism/. But, as the legislative
continued to show traces of the ancient barbaric rule, her empire
gradually broke up, and intestine wars introduced the reign of
/anarchy/; while the /sceptics/, like nomadic tribes, who hate a
permanent habitation and settled mode of living, attacked from time to
time those who had organized themselves into civil communities. But
their number was, very happily, small; and thus they could not entirely
put a stop to the exertions of those who persisted in raising new
edifices, although on no settled or uniform plan (Kant, Preface to
Critique Pure Reason pp xvii-xviii)
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