At 01:16 PM 3/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
>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
rhizomes are replete with abortions. there are multiple entrances to the
castle, but there are also multiple dead ends.
s.
>
>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
rhizomes are replete with abortions. there are multiple entrances to the
castle, but there are also multiple dead ends.
s.
>