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MMHTT is a rhizome. As such, it is not laid out, nor does it function, in a way the average Reader may be used to. It does not state a central concept (there is no thesis, there is no motif). Nor does it build upon (or mine within) any concept/thesis/motif until it is a spent resource. Rather, this project moves outward in a lateral way with no center, creating many possible connecting points and avenues for meaning-making. This project is not about the exhaustive treatment of a thing—of a concept, thesis, motif—in such a way that exhausts that thing. Neither is this project about building a vertical knowledge structure. Rather, the MMHTT project builds laterally outward with the hope of creating unforeseeable novelty.
Deleuze theorized that organized systems (economic systems, political systems, even belief systems perhaps) tend to be organized in one of two ways: hierarchical and centralized or flat and decentralized. In Deleuze's efforts to advocate for a radical, flat and decentralized organizational system, he metaphorized two distinct structural models found in nature: an arboreal structure (a rooted tree that has a strong central trunk whose growth pattern is upward) and a rhizomatic structure (a subterranean plant that sends roots and shoots from its nodes whose growth pattern is horizontally outward). To Deleuze, a rhizome is a superior organizational system because it is contingently flexible, adaptive and creative. —Authro Noté
(for more information on this author and all other Author's Notes authors, please see 4.Communion)
Deleuze theorized that organized systems (economic systems, political systems, even belief systems perhaps) tend to be organized in one of two ways: hierarchical and centralized or flat and decentralized. In Deleuze's efforts to advocate for a radical, flat and decentralized organizational system, he metaphorized two distinct structural models found in nature: an arboreal structure (a rooted tree that has a strong central trunk whose growth pattern is upward) and a rhizomatic structure (a subterranean plant that sends roots and shoots from its nodes whose growth pattern is horizontally outward). To Deleuze, a rhizome is a superior organizational system because it is contingently flexible, adaptive and creative. —Authro Noté
(for more information on this author and all other Author's Notes authors, please see 4.Communion)