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== Table of Contents to the English edition==

See A Thousand Plateaus

Translator's Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy, Brian Massumi, ix

Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgments, xvi

Author's Note, xx

1. Introduction: Rhizome, 3

2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? 26

3. 10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) 39

4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics, 75

5. 587 B.C.--A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs, 111

6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 149

7. Year Zero: Faciality, 167

8. 1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?" 192

With an illustration by Outcault, on the novellas "In the Cage" by Henry James, "The Crack-up" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Story of the Abyss and the Spyglass" by Pierrette Fleutiaux

9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity, 208

10. 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible..., 232

11. 1837: Of the Refrain, 310

12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology:--The War Machine, 351

13. 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture, 424

14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated, 474

15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines, 501

Notes, 517

Bibliography (compiled by Brian Massumi), 579

Index, 587

List of Illustrations, 611