High plains drifter

The second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, A Thousand Plateaus was translated into English by Brian Massumi, who observes that it differs drastically in tone, content, and composition from its predecessor Anti-Oedipus. He sees A Thousand Plateaus, written over a seven-year period, as "less a critique than a sustained, constructive experiment in schizophrenic, or 'nomad', thought."[1] Before the full translation appeared in 1988, the twelfth "plateau" was published separately as Nomadology: The War Machine (New York: Semiotext(e), 1986).

Deleuze critic Eugene Holland suggests that A Thousand Plateaus complicates the slogans and oppositions developed in its predecessor. Where Anti-Oedipus created binaries such as molar/molecular, paranoid/schizophrenic, and deterritorialization/reterritorialization, A Thousand Plateaus shows how such distinctions are operations on the surface of a deeper field with more complicated and multidimensional dynamics. In doing so, it also moves away from human history toward topics such as biology and geology.