rhizome
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rhiz- + -ome. As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]rhizome (plural rhizomes)
- (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
- 1868, George Bacon Wood, A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, Or Materia Medica, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 432:
- All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
- (philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.
- 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107:
- The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren. A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.
- 2008, A. Hess, “Reconsidering the Rhizome”, in Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 35:
- Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear as a rhizome, its day-to-day usage by millions via search engines precludes experiencing the random interconnectedness and potential democratizing function.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]horizontal underground stem of some plants
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image of thought
Further reading
[edit]rhizome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
rhizome (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]rhizome m (plural rhizomes)
- (botany) rhizome
Further reading
[edit]- “rhizome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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