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MENTAL MODEL · M5430

Deterritorialization

Deterritorialization
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

The process of stripping something from its fixed territory, context, or rules, making it destabilized. This is followed by reterritorialization: re-anchoring it in a new context.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

The fluid logic of innovation. Digitalization is a massive deterritorialization (unbinding physical stores), and the metaverse is reterritorialization. In career transitions, you must first "deterritorialize" (detach from old platform labels) and then "reterritorialize" (establish new coordinates in a new field).

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Anchor fast decisions

Things are extracted from their original context/rules (deterritorialization) to gain fluidity, then anchored to a new context (reterritorialization). The two processes are symbiotic, constituting a "rhizomatic" flow and reorganization.

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