The Vegabond
From
Geographies of mobilities: practices, spaces, subjects
By Tim Cresswell, Peter Merriman
“My concern here is to relate the role our hero, the vagabond, plays. We have seen how the vagabond carries the threat of somewhere else about him – the threat of not here. This is simultaneously the threat of unaccountable mobility and dangerous ingress. It is not a tourist materiality or a commuter materiality or even, as we might expect, a nomad materiality. Here Deleuze employs the geographical imagination of another kind of spatiality to make his theoretical point about form, matter and process. The vagabond is enrolled to bring a mobile vagueness to the proceedings. A sense of not being quite there yet. The vegabond brings a fuzziness to a world some would like to hold as certain, as fixed, as sedentary.”
Further,
“…it is quite clear that the vagueness of vagabond life means that the vagabond can play a role which contradicts notions of ‘settling’, of ‘determinate states’ and ‘periods of stability’.
And onward toward the post-modern subject – a liquid, “where all that is solid has not quite melted into the air but become watery, dislocated, overflowing, provisional, transitory and, most of all, mobile.”
