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rhizome: a standalone construct

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rhizome1 CONSTRUCTRhizome (model)DELEUZE/GUATTARI · MODEL

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Philosophy and critical theory

A model of nonhierarchical connection

A model of thought and organisation in which any point can connect to any other, with no centre, no ranked levels, and no single place to begin. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari first used the figure in their 1975 Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature and developed it fully in the introduction to their 1980 A Thousand Plateaus (translated by Massumi in 1987), setting it against the arborescent or tree model, meaning knowledge pictured as a trunk that branches into fixed, ranked categories. They took the word from the plant, but the referent here is an abstract way of describing multiplicity and connection, not a stem you can dig up and weigh.[1][2]

Unit
One rhizomatic multiplicity: a set of connections with no fixed centre and no ranked levels
Recovery means
By their principle of asignifying rupture, a rhizome broken at any point starts up again along one of its old lines or a new one
Measured by
Not measured empirically; used as a conceptual model and applied through close reading and analysis of texts, institutions, and systems

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References

  1. Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1986). Kafka: Toward a minor literature (D. Polan, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 1975)
  2. Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 1980)

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