rhizomatic conncectivism?
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 reassembled 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:
[edit] Principles
1. Connectivity – the capacity to aggregate by making connections at any point on and within itself.
2. Heterogeneity – the capacity to connect anything with anything other, the linking of unlike elements
3. Multiplicity – consisting of multiple singularities synthesized into a “whole” by relations of exteriority
4. Asignifying rupture – not becoming any less of a rhizome when being severely ruptured, the ability to allow a system to function and even flourish despite local “breakdowns”, thanks to deterritorialising and reterritorialising processes
5.Cartography – described by the method of mapping for orientation from any point of entry within a “whole”, rather than by the method of tracing that re-presents an a priori path, base structure or genetic axis
6. Decalcomania – forming through continuous negotiation with its context, constantly adapting by experimentation, thus performing a non-symmetrical active resistance against rigid organization and restriction.”
Is is not surprising, that the concept of the RHIZOME is seen as a style of thought with analogy to the network-struktures of the internet (see also: CHUEN-FERNG KO: Internet: Towards a Holistic Ontology, 1997) or, more focussed on the *writing in the net*, as the paradigma of the textual structure of the net: HYPERTEXT (see a: KATHLEEN BURNETT; TOWARD A THEORY OF HYPERTEXTUAL DESIGN, 1993)
A visual interpretation is much more stricing …
