Creating a Rhizomatic knowledge node on a website -

This is another attempt at showing what a rhizomatic build would look like. It fits in with an article I’m currently writing and a discussion paper that is dying in the draft section of this blog. I’m looking for feedback on this, so I do hope some of you will take the five minutes to listen to it and then comment. If your comment is “I have no idea what you’re talking about” that’s fine too. I’m just trying to find a more dynamic way of talking about something that is always changing. This will also appear as a ‘resource’ on the article that should be published in June…

[Blog posts]

"The rhizome is an antigenealogy. It is a short-term memory, aor antimemory. The rhizome operates by variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots. Unlike the graphic arts, drawing or photography, unlike tracings, the rhizome pertains to a map that must be produced, constructed, a map that is always detachable, connectable, reversilble, modifiable, and has multiple entryways and exits and its own lines of flight." p. 21 TP

"a rhizome is not amenable to any structural or generative model." p. 12 TP

"A rhizome may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines... Every rhiozme contain lines of segmentarity according to which it is stratified, territorialized, organized, signified attributed., as well as lines of deterritorialization down which it constantly flees." p. 9 TP

Principles of Multiplicity

"Multiplicities are rhizomatic, and expose arborescent pseudomultiplicities for what they are" p. 8 TP

"A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb "to be," but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, "and... and.. and..." p. 25 TP

"Any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be." p. 7 TP

This section continues of to talk about how things like language are contextual, how a local language will form around a given 'flag pole' they use the idea of parishes and bishoprics (they might be French :) ) or capitals... I think the same is true for online communities... these ideas form around given types of communities (see snowclone stuff)

"A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences and social struggles" p. 7 TP

This gives a real sense both of the power of looking at things (like learning) from a rhizomatic perspective. Constantly establishing connections, rather than choosing an artificial goal (learn how to dance) and try to set about accomplishing it... when learning to dance is really a small part of what it would take to go dancing (not, perhaps, a perfect example.)