spams like the doki-doki one currently plaguing this list always reinforce
in me the idea that computer networks are really just false rhizomes.
however much they mimic the qualities of true rhizomes--non-iterated
repetition, every point connects to every other, infinite expansion in all
directions, etc. --they are ultimately just tree or fascicle-structures. i
know that d&g say that every smooth space generates striations and that
every striated space "reimparts" smoothness. even the most striated,
arborescent systems, like cyberspace, presumably open somewhere onto smooth
lines of flight. i can't help wondering where doki-doki fits in. is it
another example of the worst aspects of arborescent-systems, or a
potentially subversive (viral) line of flight, a rhizome with the potential
to bring tree-system down? bill bogard
in me the idea that computer networks are really just false rhizomes.
however much they mimic the qualities of true rhizomes--non-iterated
repetition, every point connects to every other, infinite expansion in all
directions, etc. --they are ultimately just tree or fascicle-structures. i
know that d&g say that every smooth space generates striations and that
every striated space "reimparts" smoothness. even the most striated,
arborescent systems, like cyberspace, presumably open somewhere onto smooth
lines of flight. i can't help wondering where doki-doki fits in. is it
another example of the worst aspects of arborescent-systems, or a
potentially subversive (viral) line of flight, a rhizome with the potential
to bring tree-system down? bill bogard