Contents: Translator's Foreword : Pleasures of Philosophy Brian Massumi -- Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- 1. Introduction: Rhizome 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? -- 3. 10,000 B.C. : The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) 4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics -- 5. 587 B.C. - A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs -- 6.November 28, 1947 :How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs ? 7. Year Zero: Faciality -- 8. 1874 : Three Novellas, or ''What Happened?'' 9. 1933 : Micropolitics and Segmentarity -- 10. 1730 : Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming Imperceptible -- 11. 1837: Of the Refrain -- 12. 1227 : Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine -- 13. 7000 B.C. : Apparatus of Capture -- 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated -- 15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines -- Notes -- Bibliography (compiled by Brian Massumi) Index -- List of Illustrations --