1. Introduction: Rhizome avon tet Tere The 199 of us weoteAn-Oedpus together, Since each of us was several there was already quite acrond, Here wehave made use of everything that {came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We have ‘signed clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition, Why have me kept out © oxn names? Ouro habit, purely out af habit, To make ourselves untecoge sizable in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourscves, but what makes us act fel and think, Also because it's nice oak ike everybody else, say the sun rises, when everybody knows it's only a manner of speaking To reach ot the point where one no longer say | but the point whereitisne lage of any importance whether one sys I We ae no longer ourselves. Each will know his own. We have been aided, inspired. multiplied ‘A book has neither object nor subjet is made of variously formed mates, and very different dates and speeds, To attribute the bok to 8 F subject isto overlook this working of matters, and the exterioity oftheir ‘elation. Ii o fabricate a beneficent God to explain geological mover ‘ments Ina book, asin all things, there ate lines of arieulation oF segmentrity, strata and territories: but ala lines of ight. movements oF etertrialzation and desratification. Comparative rates of flow on“Ac INTRODUCTION:RHIZOME teas ines produce phenomena of relative slowness and viscosity of 09 aa acetertion and rupture Al hi nes and messuraie seep canmtutes an asemblage. 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There 90 GH Units ca what book alksaboutandhow itismade Thereforea Pook ca te abject. asan assemblage, a book has only slim connest on a an ceiabiagesandin ation to lhe bois without nea We Tito ahat a book means 25 signified or signifier we wll ot ook Mrltne rant understand nt We ill ask what fantions ith 9 ms fora ana other things it does or doesnot rans inns, eiges ts own ae inserted and meamorphose, 2nd ‘whieh other multi hich oes thot organs it makesits own converge A Book xii ih ta rine outside and on the ouside. A ook isl is 8 He only though Sn relation also measurable) ofthisiterary machine 03 Imaching > ve machine, revolutionary machine, ete-—andan aac sara ogep em along? Wehave been cfitcized for verquolne ace Bot wn one wie te ly questions which oes tera a gray machine can be plugged ste, must be plugged non machine th tad mada machine, Kafka ancamostexagrd order orate machine (What iT one ecame animal or Flt mayb rarare, which ceraily does not mean rai? 15104 Tet Ahr vie that one becomes animal? Literature san acm ee Shroud with deloy There sn idclony andnever as been aoe about are multpiiis, line, strats and scumentscis, tion ornight spd itensts, machin assemblages and their variehs tn gder without organs and tei construction and slsion, > Lopes, bo enc. and in cach case the units frees, Stomee Blane of ese unio density, BO anit of convergence: NOt only oo camer quanttication of writing, but they define writing 8 vr ete mess af someting ee. Wing has nothing 0 0 Wie INTRODUCTION RHIZOMED Ss seer moths Te casi bk tinted ea rere toit that accomplish what nature cannot or can ok do, Thelaw ofthe saticorgeacieatomnsiese oe ne book reside in nature, when it is what presi thevery division Stieenmeeroat acer uaseseriers em SoS Tasha meine ral, and circular system of ramification, rat na dichotomy schtintmas tenant one Scat recente Son fatima tl iese a eee ent at ere stiches epee ameoanr enna fumes tong plan Oneida oe ibe flowing ine ntaral method, tog det Fam One othe, ae Seeaeaterccerce mech ae sist, spast or yettocome, ax possible. We must askGD NTRODUCTION-RHIZOME trefexive, spiritual realty does nat compensate for thisstate nf ines PY tree yen more comprehensive secret unit ofa moreeNeN TG ae take Wiliam Burroughs cu-un method: he folding of ns 138 {ot Take Wi erconsuter matic and evemadventitins roots (Ke aa ar esa supplementary dimession to that ofthe texts unde act tis supplementary dimension of folding, unity contin co gala. That is why the most resolutely fragmented work can see mted a the Tal Work or Magnum Opus. Most modero melt ao aries polferate ora multiplicity grow are perfety valid Oe a ton, for example, linear direction, whereas a unity of I aaucris cl even moc ily i anoter, cieuar oF ccs tortie ener mullipiciystaken upinastructue,isarowths dimen BJuction in saws of combination. The abortions of vty tet pel makers, docores angelic, because they aim ropery ae es uaperior uni, Joyoe’s words accurately deveibed a having aoe toute sate te inca unity of the word, even of IMEURBS rei cele unt ofthe sentence. esto knowledge, Nits $ aa es ater the liner untyofknoedge ony to awoke te cle aphoriips eral return present asthe nonknoven in thought This is 5 aio dy ay that the fasrcuar sytem doesnot realy Break wth du ch ae complementariy between a subject and an object natura Foe ual realiy-unityisconsistensy thwarted and obstucted a Sect nhle anew type of unity triumphsin the subject. The works inte et the subject can no loger even dihotomize, but acedes a pe unity, of ambivalence or overdeterminaton, nan always Si toa mete gimension to that of ts objet, The word as become chaos aera imine the imag ofthe world: adile-chaosmos rather than But the book wT atrange mysifieation: a book al the more foal fr being Facog at any ate, what a vapid ide, the book asthe image of the faa enes uitignotenough tos, "Longlivethe multiple” iil st ret ett cry, No (ypographical, lexical of even syntactical lever itis to ae ro arake it heard The multiple must be made aot by always eee dimension, but ater nthe simplest of ways by din of seeire iy the number of dimensions one already, has avalable seer wee only way the one Belongs othe mokipl: aways suby always 5 bsact te unigue from she multiplicity to be constituted Write tt eine, Asystem ofthisking could be called a rhizome. Arie aan ssarpretancan sem fsabsoltcy diferent fom rots and radicls Zorme a Pigbers are chizomes, Plans with roots oF radices mma 8¢ Bas am ein other respect altogether. the question s whether Pant Tor ey snot entirely mizomade. Even some animal ar Ie ee Rats are izes: Bua are oo. al of her ne IneTRODUCTION:RMIZOMEC 7 Section concretion tls aabers Whenassvarm over eah ag weed, Animal and plant, couchgrass is crabgrass. W re distinet feeling that we will convince no one unless we enum consin opp ‘mate characteristics of the rhizome. ae secon send oanhingte and nt te: Te ier: ‘ecenthc Chom mitt Sand pec Se ng etre: cove ans every suture arcconnsed tery dene noes ocd pF som ea ba lay not only different rsgimes of signs but also stat otal fei sate Cicne eee ‘nenaton faci ety within machinic assemblages, i toma rail teak 1 itself to what is explicit and to make no presuppositions lan. fete alte poe fe dicoure mpg arter deo assemblage and types of social power. Chomsky’s gram? ity. theca fore! Soya somines ey een. mor nde a fave ofpoerian ajc marr you wieosrct arama corect sentences, you will divide each statement into a noun phrase: and ‘etotraeit deony Ou riesmal tent mse sligug ihe sac andpramasccontene fsa nol: ive assemblages of enunciation, to a whole is ofthe soa field. A rhizome ceaselessly stablishs nentns etree seme ences, and social sir creglomerating ‘gestural, and cognitive: there is no I we there an in fusca aon despots specs Eves Theres no eal partner any re hn thee rmogencous linguistic community. Language isin Weinreth's words “aeseniyhteoucon ey Ths no meer nse