Abstract

The paper starts from the pages of A Thousand Plateaus (1980) dedicated to the refrain, and identifies a Kantian inspiration in the topics covered: the relationship between milieu and territory, but also the theme of art. Two years earlier (1978), in fact, Deleuze had given lectures on Kant in Vincennes focused on time. Although Kant's paradigm is in many ways far from Deleuze and Guattari’s one, the former may be certainly seen as a significant precedent, especially when we consider what Deleuze said about him in his lectures, defining him a philosopher who “develops a whole geographical conception of thought”. Finally, the article deals with Deleuze's reading of Kant's sublime as a rupture of rhythm and emergence of chaos. In the sublime it is therefore possible to recognize an antecedent to that rhythm flying towards the cosmos that will be discussed as deterritorialization of the refrain in A Thousand Plateaus.