Rhizomes

Deleuze & Guattari

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

• 17: [mode of organization in which] all individuals are interchangeable, defined only by their state at a given moment - such that the local operations are coordinated and the final, global result synchronized without a central agency.
• 21: The rhizome is reducible neither to the One more the multiple...it is comprised not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion.
• [the rhizome is] defined solely as a circulation of states

Gartler

Mark Gartler. "Rhizome." Theories of Media: Keywords Glossary. University of Chicago. Accessed 14 Mar 2017. [csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/rhizome.htm URL].

• [Rhizome] has been offered as an explanatory framework for network theory and hypertext, although a strict reading of Deleuze and Guattari does not suppor these interpretations. Their rhizome is non-hierarchical, heterogeneous, mulitiplicitous, and acentered.
• Deleuze and Guattari arrive at the rhizome by way of analyzing the book.
• One of D and G's criticisms of the tree is that it does not offer an adequate explanation of multiplicity.
• the rhizome has no unique source from which all development occurs.
• [Trees and rhizomes] are not completely repellant however, because the rhizome is able to infiltrate the tree; fluidity and openness infect the closed, unchanging, and static.
• The rhizome deterritorializes strata, subverts hierarchies.
• The characterization of the Web as a rhizome leaves out aspects of the concept described by D and G.... The Web operates on the intrnet, itself a structure with a tree-like Root whose centralized featuers have been cited as ripe for domination.