Three Minute Theory: What is the Rhizome?

40 thoughts on “Three Minute Theory: What is the Rhizome?”

1. Funny, it seems to be totally coherent to me. And restates a concept that I have accepted for some time. No philosophers. Just my own intra-active thought.

2. Can you add closed captions to this (and your other videos) please? These are great teaching tools but accessibility demands greater use of closed captions. YouTube can add them somewhat automatically. They're flawed, but it's a start. Or you could add them manually or add a transcript in the description section. Thanks!

3. WTF is this??? I just want to know what a plant rhizome is.. Who cares about all these technical terms and jargon that people coin to explain simple things to make themselves feel smarter because they can't accept that they are just average like everyone else

4. im even more confused now fam

5. Thank you very much for your amazing way in putting complex things into simple words 🙂

6. very good video and useful

7. Lateral thinking — to me that about sums it up. Not that it should be summed up with two words, but if I had to explain the Rhizome concept to someone with no knowledge of D&G, that's how I'd begin. I'd also point them in the direction of Bruno Latour's books 'We Have Never Been Modern' and Reassembling the Social'. These book pursue a similar line of thought to'A Thousand Plateaus', but the writing is clear and succinct. As for D&G being 'postmodern' (as per the comments below), that's not a term I'd use to describe them. They're really materialists and have more in common with someone like Marx than Lyotard'. Rhizome is one way of approaching materialism.

   Great video

8. a piece, I need the pieces, its tuff stuff.

9. fuck literation, is my early understanding. It seems volatile to speech, of course not only, but particularly.

10. That was so good! You made a very complicated thing comprehensible. Well done and thank you.

11. couldn't agree more

12. thanks a lot 🙂

13. Cool–thank you!

14. So helpful!!!! Thank you!!!!

15. I don't recommend watching this without sound

16. Thank you very much for this video, it is very insightful and coherent enough to be used to explain the somewhat growth of informal settlements in South Africa from an architectural mapping approach

17. Thank you! This makes for a great supplement to all of Deleuze and Guitarri's writings, concisely clarifying some of the more obscure points.

18. Thank you for this introduction! Very useful and informative.

19. really really good and informative video!

20. narrator: "Which makes us think of the rhizome as a map, something that's always open and can be entered at any point. Think about it-"
    me: "okay?????????"
    narrator: "-is there really a starting point to reading a map?"
    me: "oh shit…."

21. Great explanation. Short and meaningful.

22. I had not liked it

23. Go read Mille Plateaux and stop oversimplification

24. amazing. thank you

25. am I the only one that saw a dried up yoda at 2:40?

26. It is impossible to think or even to see without employing heirarchy. If you look at a face and do not see some features over others, you won't see the face.

27. Thank you . That was so helpful!

28. Eh oui, l'épisode de Hannibal nbc

29. I wish the audio quality is better, everything else is spot on

30. add cc please

31. Hi everyone, this video is great and I have (automatically) transcripted it to citate it.
    I leave u all the transcription below. I know there are several mistakes but you can easily correct them (first of all interaction with intra-actions, the web speech api cannot understand the pronounce difference)

    I think interaction term that comes to us from feminist physicist Karen barad describes interaction as a mutual Constitution of an takeaway agencies and what agency again simply we can understand agency as the ability to act so in other words interactive the meaning of people and things and other stuff ability to act sounds like interaction that doesn't it well it's breakdown the difference first let's look at the prefixes inter and intra inter means among or in the midst of where is intra means within will be at the word action to these prefixes we had a whole different meaning when two bodies interact the age rating of level of independence each entity exist before the account or one and other however when bodies interact they do so and Koch institute of ways individuals materialize through interaction and the ability that emerges from within the relationship not outside of it so why is this distinction important well interaction gives us a whole new way of thinking about a relationship with each other with matter with materials with nature and with discourses when these different things are in relationships with each other our ability to do stuff changes transforms or emerges take the reasonable or phenomenon as an example we can see the above phenomenon is not just the virus itself but is an interaction of the actual virus with human and non-human actors including human bodies discourses on Africa pandemics the Royal politics political pundits news channels in fear is not just a virus but a phenomenon that made in unmade through interactions between nature culture and technology through interaction we are all brought together into the above phenomenon and yet this interaction separated into new Coke and Stitch with its subject through interactions we become at least temporarily the afflicted none of which of the Opera not at risk and the exposed and unexposed studying these interactions reveals differences get made and unmade it's unlikely that many of us will interact with ebola virus but we will all interact with you both phenomenon and therefore we are all responsible for the matter produced in these interactions the discourses the materials and the subject positions interactions deferring deflect responsibility but in interactions responsibility is distributed among the constituent of entities this is where agency comes in the play agency is about action reconfiguring doing and being it is not exist separately but and burgers in the relationship in these interactions thinking with interaction means giving a cause-and-effect relationships individual agency and subject object I can't we gain new understandings of ethics and justice as not things at a predetermined but always changing and unfolding interaction all the questions said that boundaries and borders in linear time and in term it helps us think in terms of simultaneity it tears down the walls that contains disciplined thought and action to reveal the artificial boundaries we forgot we invented

32. Good video 😀

33. These fools have attempted to copyright chaos by giving it a another name and dressing it in a clown costume , once again the human ego proves itself to be hubristic by nature. The planet suffers because of the human parasite inhabits her.

34. Seems like what the East/Orient is….?

35. ima rhizome

36. Very good one

37. With regard to the bag of marbles: isn’t it the case that adding or subtracting marbles would also feel different (I.e. its weight) in a similar way to the explanation about temperature? Maybe I’ve misunderstood. Is the multiplicity a perspective on a thing, or is it an aspect of said thing?

38. thanks babes, going to instrumentalize this to promote fascism

39. By far the clearest explanation of the concept I've encountered… and I still can't make heads or tails of it (I guess that's the point)

40. Great video! Very insightful. But just a little question; if you empty out the bag of – is not then no longer a bag of marbles?

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