clipped from www.capitalismandschizophrenia.org

It seemes to me, that the radical philosphical concept of the RHIZOM, which was used by Deleuze/Guattari in a *theory mashup* 1972 should be re-
assembled with the concept of CONNECTIVISM … the writing of the collaborators DELEUZE and GUATTARI is a cut-up method,
it is meant to be read as one would sample a record. Place the needle on any groove and listen. Turn the book to any chapter and read.
The work is quite unlike most others and is a model for a different way of thinking and being. … an early example of an open system,
which has more connections to artistic production (Assemblage, Collage, RIturnell) and can be an introduction to a kind of nomadic
thinking, which we practice today in the blogosphere …

“The rhizome is an acentered, nonhierarchical, nonsignifying system without a General and without an organizing memory or central automation, defined solely by a circulation of states” (ATPC 23). The model of thought for rhizomatics, schizoanalysis, stratoanalysis, pragmatics, and micropolitics.

The rhizome is characterized by six principles (“approximate characteristics” (ATPC 7)) – all active simultaneously – described in the introduction chapter of A Thousand Plateaus:

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