rhizome

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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.

– The Rhizome - Cryppix - Medium

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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".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)

A tree and a rhizome next to each other.  You see the hiearchy/verticality of the tree, and the horizontality of the rhizome.

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