tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post5428938569492130941..comments2023-10-29T13:30:37.281-04:00Comments on Communications & Society: #change11 Defining the Rhizomekeith.hamonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-6438872581369964672011-11-11T17:04:57.327-05:002011-11-11T17:04:57.327-05:00Bon, thanks for the reference to Donna Harraway. H...Bon, thanks for the reference to Donna Harraway. Her concept of the cyborg has been on the edge of my vision for some time, but now I'm moving it inward. I'll read her.<br /><br />In the meantime, I like when you say <i>map or lens, the rhizome is a visual tool that changes the terrain viewed</i>. This is the correct understanding to my mind. The rhizome doesn't tell us exactly how tokeith.hamonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-36874889529107104012011-11-10T09:52:16.166-05:002011-11-10T09:52:16.166-05:00smak, I like your questions, and I think I can ans...smak, I like your questions, and I think I can answer both of them by starting with the first: How is the rhizome nothing?<br /><br />As I understand the rhizome, it is not a <i>thing</i> in our usual sense of things: a discrete unit with a rather fixed set of describable features usually shared with other units of its type. Each thing may interact with other things, but it maintains its own keith.hamonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-40327103731350782702011-11-10T09:29:22.639-05:002011-11-10T09:29:22.639-05:00John, i'm going to leap in (over my head, like...John, i'm going to leap in (over my head, likely) to say that that concept of the rhizome undermining the systems of thought that formed it has strong parallels with Donna Haraway's vision of the cyborg. because the cyborg is a personification i find the conceptualization perhaps easier to grasp. <br /><br />Haraway's cyborg - which, like the rhizome, is a construct developed for Bonhttp://theory.cribchronicles.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-26764947158296185222011-11-10T08:41:27.325-05:002011-11-10T08:41:27.325-05:00Hi Keith,
I read your post with interests. You me...Hi Keith,<br />I read your post with interests. You mentioned that rhizome is nothing. You also stated that "Rhizomatic thinking, then, is a useful strategy for looking at learning in a different way. It includes positivist thought and reductionist thought and all the other systems of thought, but at the same time that the rhizome provides a rich context for those systems of thought, it is smakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996589245560033624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-45234646817654696472011-11-08T21:18:32.823-05:002011-11-08T21:18:32.823-05:00Glen, I think the rhizome can reboot one's vie...Glen, I think the rhizome can reboot one's view of reality. It has mine. I see whole swaths of reality that were obscure before, and I'm seeing more with every conversation. It can provide a new context within which we can devise new processes and procedures and rework old processes.<br /><br />I'm confused, though, by your comment that "Others who describe the metaphor seem so keith.hamonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-82572235822235156732011-11-08T21:08:28.369-05:002011-11-08T21:08:28.369-05:00Thanks for the comments and compliments, Jeffrey, ...Thanks for the comments and compliments, Jeffrey, and thanks most for the question about what I have gained with the rhizome metaphor. That's at the heart of my argument, after all.<br /><br />The rhizome gave me a coherent vision of a range of ideas I had been struggling with for several years and trying to deal with mostly through the concept of networks. Rhizomatic structures are quite keith.hamonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-35273597808801888082011-11-08T20:43:26.541-05:002011-11-08T20:43:26.541-05:00I enjoyed this post very much. It seems to explain...I enjoyed this post very much. It seems to explain an idea about the rhizome metaphor that isn't approached in other descriptions that I've read, that is that the Rhizome is a starting point in education to recontextualize or create new. Others who describe the metaphor seem so reluctant to break any symmetry at all.glenhttp://apointofcontact.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/background-independence-in-education/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2349173885651707639.post-51528173949332775072011-11-08T20:08:58.592-05:002011-11-08T20:08:58.592-05:00Interesting post, Keith. You inspired me to order ...Interesting post, Keith. You inspired me to order that text A Thousand Plateaus to better understand Dave's influences.<br /> <br />I also really found your noodle metaphor helpful, and think your use of language, "Reductionism wants to disentangle the single noodle of my life, stretch it out on an examination tray, name and number the parts, establish the tidy sequences of cause and Jeffrey Keeferhttp://silenceandvoice.com/noreply@blogger.com