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What exactly is a 'rhizome' according to Deleuze and Guattari?
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A decentralized network of ideas, notions, philosophies, actions, human forces, etc. The traditional Enlightenment/Western structure is a tree, where everything branches out of a larger authority. With the rhizomic structure there is no center, rhizomes can multiply and extend. There is no destroying them in the traditional method (by destroying the trunk), they are evolutionary and individual and potentially transformative. An example of the rhizomic system in effect politically would be #Occupy, BLM, or the #metoo movement in social media. None had any direct leadership but spread organically by self-activating agents.