>Is anyone familiar with this term? I encountered it in reading
>Hardt and Negri's 'Empire':
>
>"The constitution of a global market organized along a disciplinary
>model is traversed by tensions that open mobility in every
>direction; it is a transversal mobility that is rhizomatic rather
>than arborescent" (253).
>
>I believe it comes from Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus,' but I
>am not clear as to what it entails, i.e., why they select rhizome as
>metaphor rather than any other omni-directional mobility. Any
>theory-heads on list?
My theory is that the authors are defrauding their readers by constructing complex, but meaningless, sentences. Readers are free to read any meaning they they choose into such gibberish. That is to say, its a load of snake oil.
Bill bartlett Bracknell Tas