A Thousand Plateaus: Introduction - "Rhizome" - Some Sketches, Notes, Preliminary Work.

[ofmonsters]

Some initial key concepts and notes / attempts to describe:

-"multiple / multiplicity" - Constructed or "made" (6); an escape from binary and/or hierarchical ("up-and-down") structures, hence the alternative landscape of the "rhizome" (horizontal, but not strictly so); subterranean; continuous; emphasizing the position of the collective as a

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[poldy]

is a rhizome (ῥιζωμη?) an alternative model to mimesis, or another model of how mimesis works (as if I knew what they meant by that since mimesis means different things to different people?)

Incidentally, my LSJ does not list that word. I don't think it is Greek, even though it looks like it wants to be.

[ofmonsters]

1. Incidentally, my LSJ does not list that word. I don't think it is Greek, even though it looks like it wants to be.

This almost made me pee my pants. I love you so. I really, really do. I cannot say this enough.

2. is a rhizome (ῥιζωμη?) an alternative model to mimesis, or another model of how mimesis works...?

I am thinking about this. You know me. I need to brew for awhile before I can reply. But don't you worry...

Love,
V.

[mme_red]

Huh. I also thought the rhizome was taken from a botany term (I don't know if it's Greek), and that in D&G rhizome is the figural image of a non-hierarchical networking. It is a trope that attempts to mitigate conventional tropes (which express dichotomous relation). That's why it is expressed in the book as a bulb (as opposed to a tree which has branches, beginnings and ends, and its essentially continuous bifurcation).

I'm not sure exactly how it would be and alternative model to mimesis, again it would depend on how the text is understanding mimesis

[max_ambiguity]

You know, I didn't mean to ignore this post, but I'm having trouble finding time to look over the text again.

[ofmonsters]

Please let me know if you get a chance this weekend and/or want to discuss...

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