Junk for Code

I think the first article in the link you provide in your previous post, "Deluze on Human Rights", is an excellent example of Deluze's thinking on rhizomes. His use of the concept of jurisprudence as opposed to rights highlights the difference in thinking he suggests between rhizomatic and arborescent ontology.

That said, I have found (after a great expenditure of time and effort) that Deluze's concepts are too precious and sophisticated to be of much use beyond whiling away time. As far as I am concerned, D&G's thought is a political dead end; beyond apprehending the (pretty basic) distinction he makes in "on Human Rights," I suggest you give it a pass. There is an alluring sense of depth in their writing, but that's about all you're left with at the end of a long day...

Hmm,
I'm willing to plug away here and there for a while to see what I can dig up from the dungheap.

I was attracted to their conception of philosophy as the creation of untimely concepts that enables us to think otherwise about the events, relations, conventions and processes of our lived history.

That neo-Nietzscheism is enough for me to poke around.

Unfortunately, in their case, the untimelyness may simply be reactionary. Not that they themselves were necessarily reactionary, but they were writing in a time of tremendous class retrenchment and dispair, in the aftermath of terrible defeats. The painstaking self-criticism that they advance seems, in light of the present, like grasping at straws.

Our class tide is on the rise, and their prefigurations are limp and spooky compared to the events that are going on around us. We don't need any advanced philisophy to think otherwise about the present, just a willingness to see and learn.

Hmmm,

it all depends what you find in their rusty old toolbox and what you do with it.

I'm interested to see whether they have any concepts that can help me make sense of our porno visual culture.

Something more than pornography as a creative industry or porn and intertexuality.