My paper explores some ways in which Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s poststructuralistg geophilosophy might be used to appraise concepts such as ESD in contemporary contexts of globalisation and international collaboration. I use their concept of mots d’ordre (order-words) to appraise three recent texts (from Australia, North America, and the UK) which explore sustainability in the context of three different discourses-practices: (lifelong) learning, (educational) leadership and (environmental) law.