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But what is a rhizome, anyway? In the words of the text: “A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles. Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes” (7). As is the potato, or any structure in which each point is necessarily connected to each other point, in which no location may become a beginning or an end, yet the whole is heterogeneous. Deleuze labels the rhizome as a “multiplicity,” rather than a “multiple,” wresting it from any relation to “the One” (8). The rhizome likewise resists structures of domination, such as the notion of “the mother tongue” in linguistics, though it does admit to ongoing cycles of what Deleuze refers to as “deterritorializing” and “reterritorializing” moments.
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Deleuze and Guattari, "Rhizome" annotation by Dan Clintonzome with the world, there is
an aparallel evolution of the book and the world” (11). This model,
framed metaphorically around rhizomorphism, also extends itself within the
text to the study of linguistics and politics.
<span>But what is a rhizome, anyway? In the words of the text: “A
rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and
radicles. Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes” (7). As is the potato,
or any structure in which each point is necessarily connected to
each other point, in which no location may become a beginning or
an end, yet the whole is heterogeneous. Deleuze labels the rhizome
as a “multiplicity,” rather than a “multiple,” wresting
it from any relation to “the One” (8). The rhizome likewise
resists structures of domination, such as the notion of “the
mother tongue” in linguistics, though it does admit to ongoing
cycles of what Deleuze refers to as “deterritorializing” and “reterritorializing” moments.
Where the potato is the hero of this story, the tree becomes the
villain. “Arborescent” is a dirty word. “We’re
tired of trees,” writes Deleuze, “We Summary
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