rhizomes

With spring comes new ways of seeing life. Fresh green leaves and shoots develop much like ideas mature and evolve.

New for me this spring, is the use of arboretic and rhizomatic growth as an effective metaphor used to divide thoughts and ideas into groups of hierarchic and parallell logic. The rhizome used by Jung to describe a wealth of invisible underground ideas, wonderfully illustrated in Hemingways "tip of the iceberg" novels, has developed into a way of analysis when Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari use the same metaphor to investigate texts with several entry and exit points.

Using their theory and the observation that first graders always "read" textbooks in fragments intersected by other school subjects and by activities outside school opens up an intriguing field of study: Comparing texts cross subjects and cross the boundaries of school and leisure time we open for more perspectives than the linear logic that dominated the last centuries.