Meanings (ES + gloss)
rizoma
A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
rizoma
A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.
Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear as a…
The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit…