In their totemic work A Thousand Plateaus , Deleuze and Guattari explore the idea of becoming-child. They talk about this concept through the lens of deterritorialisation, a complicated idea which is perhaps best observed in how children play.  As the father of a son who loves Lego, reading these passages on becoming-child completely changed how I relate to what my son is trying to achieve through his play, and especially what I encourage within it. Lego is the perfect exampl