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BecomingRhizomatic?

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Becoming Rhizomatic?Mark Ingham 2012

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“A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles.Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes. Plants with roots or radicles may berhizomorphic in other respects altogether: the question is whetherplant life in its specificity is not

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entirely rhizomatic. Even someanimals are, in their pack form. Rats are rhizomes.” (6)

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Splitting in and Out “Burrows are too, in all of their functions of shelter, supply, movement, evasion, and breakout. The rhizome itself assumes very diverse forms, from ramified surface extension in all directions to

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concretion into bulbs andtubers. When rats swarm over each other.(7)

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In and out through the roof. “The rhizome includes the best and the worst: potato and couchgrass, or the weed. Animal and plant, couchgrass is crabgrass. We get the distinct feeling that we will convince no one unless we

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enumerate certain approximate characteristics of therhizome.“(7)

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Through the roof “Principles of connection and heterogeneity: any point of a rhizome can be connected to

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anything other, and must be. Thisis very different from the tree orroot, which plots a point, fixes an order.” (7)

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Opening to through the roof “…not every trait in a rhizome is necessarily linked to a linguistic feature: semiotic chains of every nature are connected to very diverse modes of coding

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(biological, political, economic,etc.) that bring into play not only different regimes of signs butalso states of things of differing status.” (7)

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Escape Route “A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and

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circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.”(7)

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Escape Route too. “A method of the rhizome type, on the contrary, can analyze language

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only by decentering it onto otherdimensions and other registers.” (8)

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Looking up Concorde “Multiplicities are rhizomatic, and expose arborescent pseudomultiplicities

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for what they are.” (8)

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Rocket “Puppet strings, as a rhizome or multiplicity, are tied not to the supposed will of an artist or puppeteer but to a multiplicity of nerve fibers, which form another

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puppet in other dimensionsconnected to the first:” (8)

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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We have lift off. “There are no points or positions in a rhizome, such as those found in a structure, tree, or root.

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There areonly lines.” (8)

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One small step… “The point is that a rhizome or multiplicity never allows itself to be overcoded, never has available a supplementary dimension over

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and above its number of lines, that is, overand above the multiplicityof numbers attached to those lines.” (9)

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Shake Shake Shake Shaker it… “Multiplicities are defined by the outside: by the abstract line, the line of flight or deterritorialisation

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according to which they change innature and connect with othermultiplicities.” (9)

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More Shaker it… “A rhizome may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start up

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again on one of its old lines, or on newlines.” (9)

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Sitting on the dock of the bay… “Every rhizome contains lines of segmentarity according to which it is stratified, territorialized, organized, signified, attributed, etc., as well as lines of deterritorialization down

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which it constantly flees.” (6)

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Dancing to Sitting on the Dock of the Bay… “There is a rupture in the rhizome whenever segmentary lines explode into a line of flight, but the line of flight is part of the rhizome. These lines always

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tie back to one another.” (9)

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A Paradise in Peckham… “You may make a rupture, draw a line of flight, yet there is still a danger that you will reencounter organisations that restratify

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everything,formations thatrestore power toa signifier,attributionsthat reconstitute asubject—anythingyou like, fromOedipalresurgences tofascistconcretions.” (9)

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A Paradise in Peckham…The Kings Fruit Basket… “Groups and individuals contain microfascisms just waiting to crystallize. Yes,

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couchgrass is also arhizome. Goodand bad are onlythe products ofan active andtemporaryselection, whichmust be renewed.”(9-10)

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A Paradise in Peckham… “Wasp and orchid, as heterogen eous elements, form a rhizome.” (10)

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A Paradise in Peckham… “There isneither imitation nor resem blance, only an exploding of two heterogeneous series on the

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line offlight composed by acommon rhizome that canno longer be attributed to or subjugated byanything signifying.” (10)

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One of many

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One of Many Follies… “Evolutionary schemas would no longer follow models of ar borescent descent going from the least to

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the mostdifferentiated, but instead a rhizome operating immediately in the heterogeneous and ju mping from one already differentiated

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line to another.”(10)

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One More of many Follies… “We form a rhizome with our viruses, or rather our viruses cause us to form a

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rhizomewith other animals.” (10)

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Two of One of many Follies… “We evolve and die more from our polymorphous and rhizomatic flus than from

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hereditarydiseases, or diseases thathave their own line ofdescent. The rhizome is an anti- genealogy.” (11)

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Many Middens… “…the book is not an image of the world. It forms a rh izome with the world, the re is an

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aparallelevolution of the book and the world; the book assures the deterritorialization of the world, but the world effects a reterritorialization

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ofthe book, which inturn deterritorializes itselfin the world (if it iscapable, if it can).(11)

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Inside one of the Many Middens… “The wisdom of the plants: even when they have roots, there is always an

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outside where they form a rhizome with something else-with thewind, an animal, human beings (and there is also an aspect underwhich animals

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themselves form rhizomes, as do people, etc.). (11)

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More Many Midens… "Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us." (11)

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Something Misunderstood… “Always follow the rhizome by rupture; lengthen, prolong, and relay the line of

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flight; make it vary, until you have produced the most abstract andtortuous of lines of n dimensions and broken directions.” (11)

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More of Something Misunderstood… “Write, form a rhizome, increase

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your territory by deterritorialisati on, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane

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ofconsistency.”(11)

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I gave you Too Many Pieces of Silver… “Music has always sent out lines of flight, like so many "transformation al multiplicities," even

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overturningthe very codes thatstructure or arborify it;that is whymusical form,right down to itsruptures and

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proliferation,is comparableto a weed, arhizome.” (11-12)

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Raymond Williams meets Rolf Harris… “…a rhizome isnot amenable to any structural or generative model. It is a stranger to

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any idea ofgenetic axisor deepstructure.”(12)

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Raymond Williams meets Rolf Harris…In a Rotten Garden… “The rhizome is altogether different, a map and not a tracing.

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Make a map, not atracing. The orchiddoes not reproducethe tracing of the wasp; it forms a map with the wasp, in a rhizome. ” (12)

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Raymond Williams meets Rolf Harris…A they paper over the cracks…. “The map does not reproduc e an unconscio us closed in upon itself; it constructs the

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unconscious. Itfostersconnectionsbetweenfields, theremovalof

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blockages on bodies withoutorgans, the maximumopening of bodieswithout organs onto aplane of consistency. Itis itself a part of the rhizome. ” (12)

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Raymond Williams meets Rolf Harris… “Perhaps one of the most important characteri

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stics of the rhizome is that it always has multiple entryway s;” (13)

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A Map Not a Tracing? “ The t racing has already translated the map into an image; it has already t ransformed the rhizome

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intoroots and radicles.”(13)

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A Map Not a Tracing? “Look at what happened to Little Hans already, an example of child psychoanalysis at its purest: they kept on BREAKING HIS RHIZOME and BLOTCHING HIS MAP, setting it straight for him,

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blocking his every way out, until he began todesire his own shameand guilt, until they had rooted shame and guiltin him, PHOBIA(they barred him from the rhizome of thebuilding, then from the

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rhizome of the street, they rooted him in hisparents bed, theyradicled him to his own body, they fixated himon Professor Freud).”(14)

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Market Forces… “Strike the pose or follow the axis, genetic stage or structural destiny-one way or the other, your rhizome will be broken. You will be allowed to live and speak, but only after every outlet has been obstructed. Once a rhizome has been obstructed, arborified, its all over, no desire stirs;

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for it is always by rhizome thatdesire moves and produces. Whenever desire climbs a tree, internal repercussions trip it up and it falls to its death; the rhizome, on the other hand, acts on desire by external, productive outgrowths.” (14)

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Market Forces… “That is why it is so important to try the other, reverse but nonsymmetrical, operation. Plug the tracings back into the map,

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connect the roots or trees back up with a rhizome.” (14)

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We become one “The same applies to the group map: show at what point in the rhizome there form phenomena of massification, bureaucracy, leadership, fascisation, etc., which lines nevertheless survive, if only underground, continuing to make

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rhizome in the shadows.” (14)

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We become one and Many “There exist tree or root structures in rhizomes; conversely, a tree branch or root division may begin to

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burgeon into a rhizome. Thecoordinates are determined not bytheoretical analyses implyinguniversals but by a pragmaticscomposing multiplicities or aggregatesof intensities.” (15)

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We become one and Many “A new rhizome may form in the heart of a tree, the hollow of a root, the crook of a

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branch. Or else it is a microscopicelement of the root-tree, aradicle,that gets rhizome productiongoing.” (15)

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Mapping not Tracing? “Accounting andbureaucracy proceed by tracings: they can begin to burgeon nonetheless, throwing

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out rhizome stems, asin a Kafka novel.” (15)

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Mapping not Tracing? “To be rhizomorphous is to produce stems and

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filaments that seem to be roots, or betteryet connect with them by penetrating the trunk, but put them tostrange new uses.” (15)

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Mapping not Tracing? “Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial roots, adventitious

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growthsand rhizomes.” (15)

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Mapping not Tracing? “Many people have a tree growing in their heads, but the brain itself is much more a grass than a tree.” (15)

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Mapping not Tracing? “The same goes for memory. Neurologists and psychophysiologists distinguish between long- term memory and short-term memory (on the order of a minute). The difference between them is not simply

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quantitative: short-term memory is ofthe rhizome or diagram type, and long-term memory is arborescent and centralized (imprint, engram, tracing, or photograph).” (15-16)

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Mapping not Tracing? “Short-term memory includes forgetting as a process; it merges not with the instant but instead with the nervous, temporal, and collective rhizome. Long-term memory (family, race, society, or civilization) traces and translates, but what it translates continues to

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act in it, from a distance, off beat, in an"untimely" way, notinstantaneously.” (16)

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