In A Thousand Plateaus, the concept of rhizome is introduced through a botanical metaphor, which contrasts the rhizomatic character of underground root systems to the natural hierarchical ordering present in trees. [4] [2] [3] Deleuze and Guattari extend this metaphor beyond botanical trees to the realm of abstract and linguistic trees. [2] [3]

2017年4月26日 · In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari name arborescence or the model of the tree as the paradigm for knowledge and practice in the modern Western world; in this model, a small idea—a seed or acorn—takes root and grows into a tree with a sturdy trunk supporting numerous branches, all linked to and traceable back to the original seed ...

The tree comes to symbolize the distinction between subject and object, between signifier and signified, encompassing the whole of dualistic logic through its branching patterns, through its definitions of set pathways between root and branch.

Principles of connection and heterogeneity: any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be. This is very different from the tree or root, which plots a point, fixes an order. The linguistic tree on the Chomsky model still begins at a point S and proceeds by dichotomy.

In this essay, I also want to talk about trees—specifically a tree, called the Ada Tree. In fact, I want to use Deleuze's and Guattari's work to produce this tree as something other than a tree—to write a brief rhizomatics of the Ada Tree.

2020年5月8日 · This was the picture painted by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari about their long association as collaborative thinkers. A Thousand Plateaus is a remarkable book of philosophy that was the result of an alliance started in the 1960s. At that time, Deleuze was an established scholar who had published studies on the likes of ...

2023年7月6日 · Deleuze and Guattari propose a rhizomatic approach to mapping, where connections and relations between different elements are explored without imposing hierarchical or predetermined structures. They view cartography as a creative and dynamic process that allows for the discovery of new connections, lines of flight, and intensities within a ...

The tree image is Deleuze and Guattari's chief contrast against the rhizome, and much about the rhizome can be understood through this opposition. The tree plainly represents a hierarchy, but it also refers to binary systems, because every new branch ties back in some essential way to the root that makes all growth possible.

Deleuze and Guattari discuss the tension between trees and grass in mul- tiple ways in A Thousand Plateaus , including between novellas and tales, the smooth and striated, and nomads and the war machine.

2020年4月22日 · “Rhizome” is a conceptual figure used in contrast to centered and rooted trees by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as well as semiotician Umberto Eco.