RHIZOMATICS

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A rhizome is a concept that describes a nonlinear network that "connects any point to any other point". It appears in the work of French theorists Deleuze and Guattari, who used the term in their book A Thousand Plateaus to refer to networks that establish connections between chains of organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences and social struggles that have no apparent order or coherency.

A rhizome is purely a network of multiplicities that are not arborescent – tree-like, or hierarchical. For instance,a 'rhisomatic network has properties similar to lattices.
 


The Philosophical Concept of Rhizome: Rhizome comes from the Greek rhizoma . Rhizome is often taken as being synonymous with “root”; in botany, a rhizome is a plant structure that grows underground and has both roots – commonly, the part that grows down into the ground and shoots up commonly, it is the part that grows up through the ground.

What is rhizomatic learning? Rhizomatic learning uses the botanical metaphor of the rhizome to describe the complex and often messy nature of learning.

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