‘Any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be. This is very different from the tree or root, which plots a point, fixes an order. (…) There are no points or positions in a rhizome, such as those found in a structure, tree, or root. There are only lines.’

The rhizome is an organism of interconnected living fibres that has no central point, no origin, and no particular form or unity or structure. A rhizome does not start from anywhere or end anywhere; it grows from everywhere, and is the same at any point. As such, a rhizome has no centre, which makes it difficult to uproot or destroy. Rhizomatic thinking helps account for the multiplicities of ways that these people, places and thing are gathered into many often unpredictable connections.

Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: 7-8

connectedness

heterogeneity

asignifying rupture

multiplicity

cartography

decalcomania