Submitted by Steven Warburton (not verified) on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 8:26pm.
There seems to be some misconception here that rhizome is a concept that is owned by certain individuals. It is not. The historical threads (that can be traced back before Deleuze and Guatarri) are acknowledged, and here are used as Deleuze might call it to create a new 'line of flight'. For the sake of having to repeat the words so that they are actually read and digested:
Why use the word rhizome? This is project about digital identities and addresses the issue of the fractured nature of the self when our online identities become distributed across multiple sites and services. Rhizome is a Deleuzian concept that has been used and taken by many active in the field of art, science and philosophy. It is used in this project as a cipher for understandings of digital identity as:
decentralised
unpredictable
connected
branching in many directions
having multiple entry points
with no single true view, only partial perspectives
and constituted as a multiplicity of dimensions where we lose the illusion of the objective all seeing eye/I
From this we are also using the metaphor of cartography, the map, a space which has no privileged entry point and is always open to change.
The references we use for this conceptual entry into understandings of digital identity are at present:
Deleuze & Guattari (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
Sermijn, Devlieger and Loots (2008). The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story. Qualitative Inquiry, (14)4:632–650.
There seems to be some misconception here that rhizome is a concept that is owned by certain individuals. It is not. The historical threads (that can be traced back before Deleuze and Guatarri) are acknowledged, and here are used as Deleuze might call it to create a new 'line of flight'. For the sake of having to repeat the words so that they are actually read and digested:
Why use the word rhizome? This is project about digital identities and addresses the issue of the fractured nature of the self when our online identities become distributed across multiple sites and services. Rhizome is a Deleuzian concept that has been used and taken by many active in the field of art, science and philosophy. It is used in this project as a cipher for understandings of digital identity as:
From this we are also using the metaphor of cartography, the map, a space which has no privileged entry point and is always open to change.
The references we use for this conceptual entry into understandings of digital identity are at present:
Deleuze & Guattari (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
Sermijn, Devlieger and Loots (2008). The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story. Qualitative Inquiry, (14)4:632–650.