rhizome
*Deleuze and Guattari use the terms “rhizome” and “rhizomatic” to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.
Deleuze and Guattari introduce A Thousand Plateaus by outlining the concept of the rhizome (quoted from A Thousand Plateaus):
\1 and 2. Principles of connection and heterogeneity: "…any point of a rhizome can be connected to any other, and must be"; \3. Principle of multiplicity: it is only when the multiple is effectively treated as a substantive, "multiplicity", that it ceases to have any relation to the One; \4. Principle of asignifying rupture: a rhizome may be broken, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines; \5 and 6. Principle of cartography and decalcomania: a rhizome is not amenable to any structural or generative model; it is a "map and not a tracing".
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