Rhizome- ''We have grass in our head''

The term rhizome is introduced by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 

to descr ibe the way we are thinking. In biology a rhizome is a n 

under ground system of br anches that form roots and leaf y shoot, just 

beneath and just above the ground. The rhizome is dif ferent from the 

old metaphor of the ‘tree of knowledge’, with its unique original r o ot 

and branches that bif urcate in binary splittings. Rhizomatic th ink ing

allows for the combination of heterogeneous elements that form a 

network that you can enter at any point. Like grass, it grows in b e - 

tween things. Although many people think in arborescent (and hie r - 

archical) structures, Deleuze states that we have grass in our heads. See 

A Thousand P lateaus (1992: 3-25). 

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Patricia Pisters