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Rhizomes and Networks Visualization
Inspired by the article “Your choices reveal who you are” of Valdis Krebs in the book Beautiful Visualization, I am collecting the Amazon recommendations for a certain book, until a network of books is created. I did not expected to … Continue reading
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Society of the Rhizome
It is naïve to invoke a rhizomatic mode of organization as a means of contestation and as an alternative to global capitalism since it has become what they have in common rather than what holds them apart. The rhizome is … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thinking, Rhizomatic change, Rhizomes, Society
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A Rhizome based Economy: Topology of Sustainability and Fulfilled Ontogeny
The goal of this post is to outline a concrete framework for establishing a new economy based on rhizome structure that provides negative feedback against encroaching hierarchy, that ensures environmental sustainability, and that maximizes its compatibility with human ontogeny. I … Continue reading
Lines of Flight: Does the Locavore Movement Offer an Alternative to Corporatism?
Deleuze and Guattari provide a theoretical paradigm uniquely fitted for thinking through the significance of the locavore movement in conjunction with the contemporary social system of corporatism. Their schizoanalysis draws links between environmental, social, political, and economical elements yielding a … Continue reading
Posted in Rhizomatic change, Rhizomatic growth, Rhizomes
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The Problem of Growth – A Rhizome form of Social Organization Approach
At the most basic level, then, an alternative to hierarchy and a solution to the problem of growth must address this issue of dependency. My proposed alternative—what I call “rhizome”—begins at exactly this point. The first principle of rhizome is … Continue reading
Developing a new Perspective on Leadership Theory – From a Tree of Knowledge to a Rhizome of Contingencies
Read Does the discursive formation of leadership theory hinder the development and practise of alternative leadership styles in the UK? This research question is in response to the issues summarised in the PriceWaterhouseCooper’s 2008 report on Key Trends in Human … Continue reading
Towards a Rhizomatic Method for Knowledge Management
Read The paper highlights the importance of ontological assumptions to the management of knowledge and the development of knowledge management systems. It juxtaposes the ontology of “being” based on the work of Heidegger , and the ontology of “becoming” based … Continue reading
Posted in Deleuze, Guattari, Knowledge management, Rhizomatic process, Rhizomes
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Rhizoactivity – Toward a Postmodern Theory of Lifelong Learning
Read Although the loss of certainty in the age of postmodernism is questioning knowledge production in general, the emerging discourse of lifelong learning demands a different theory of adult learning in particular. This article aims to offer a conceptual tool … Continue reading
Riding the lines of flight – Lifelong learning as a rhizome requires rhizomatic research
Thinking about the future of educational research requires a conceptual resource that is itself both imaginative and multiple and at the same time articulates a world with those self-same characteristics. This is provided by the work of Deleuze and Guattari. … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Adult learning, Complexity & learning, Deleuze, Guattari, Rhizomatic learning, Rhizomatic process, Rhizomatic research, Rhizomes
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Geophilosophy and methodology – science education research in a rhizomatic space
Read In practice research needs to be messy and heterogeneous. It needs to be messy and heterogeneous, because that is the way it, research, actually is. And also, and more importantly, it needs to be messy because that is the … Continue reading
Posted in Deleuze, Guattari, Methodology, Rhizomatic research, Rhizomes
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