Stop Thinking in Trees: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Philosophy of the Rhizome
Deleuze and Guattari on the rhizome, assemblages, lines of flight, and desire as production. A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus.
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- Reading· ~12 min
Assemblages, Lines of Flight, and the Plane of Immanence
The core conceptual machinery of A Thousand Plateaus, what Deleuze and Guattari are actually trying to describe when they say the world is rhizomatic.
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- Reading· ~10 min
Capitalism, Desire, and the Problem of Schizo-Analysis
Why Anti-Oedipus comes before A Thousand Plateaus, and what Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of capitalism and desire adds to the rhizome framework.
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- Text Explore· ~8 min
A Thousand Plateaus: The Rhizome Passage and Key Concepts
Read the opening plateau on the rhizome and the key conceptual passages on assemblages, lines of flight, and becoming.
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- Argument Map· ~10 min
From Anti-Oedipus to A Thousand Plateaus: The Complete Map
Map Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy from their critique of psychoanalysis and capitalism through the rhizome framework to their political and creative implications.
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- Dialogue· ~10 min
Dialogue: Doesn't Silicon Valley Already Run on Rhizomes?
The sharpest and most embarrassing challenge to Deleuze and Guattari, that their philosophy of deterritorialization has been absorbed wholesale by the very capitalism it was supposed to contest.
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- Reflection· ~8 min
Reflection: Your Own Arborescences and Your Own Lines of Flight
Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy is most alive when it becomes a diagnostic of your own thinking and your own situation.
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