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April 11, 2004
I'm down on the South Coast, near here, the mouth of the River Murray:

John Olsen, Lake Alexandrina, 1996
Whilst everyone appears to be wandering around looking at seaside property I'm relaxing. I had tried to access the music Bryan Bay music Festival as an live download this weekend. It should be a live download, but it is not. So much for the use of the Internet in Australia. It is not breaking away from the beaten path of a music festival.
So I'm trying to get my head around Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the rhizome. I like the idea of something that grows in all directions, or is a network of concepts that are in a state of flux from being modified or transformed as they are applied to one problem and the next. It loosens things up, allows some room for creativity, provides space for the emergence of new thinking.
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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...