rhizomatic
- adjective
- /ˌraɪzəˈmætɪk/
- Specialized
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rizomático
- The rhizomatic organization of ideas in her presentation made it easy to see how everything was interconnected.
Examples
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In a rhizomatic way of thinking, knowledge spreads in many directions rather than following a single path.
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However, as Michael Rothberg argues, the memories of them may become re-contextualized "as rhizomatic networks of temporality and cultural reference that exceed territorialization (whether at the local or national level) and identitarian reduction" ("Introduction" 7).
Academic text (2012) -
That is to say, the rhizomatic mode of thinking.
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The arborescent mode of thinking was dominant, and rhizomatic models of theorizing were virtually unthinkable at the time.
Academic text (2003) -
There are knots of arborescence in rhizomes and rhizomatic offshoots in roots.
Academic text (2011) -
The theoretical practices of deconstruction, developed by Derrida, and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomatic analysis are also presented and exemplified.
Academic text (2011) -
I think the cultural paradigm needs to shift from individual freedom to ecology and sustainability (the interconnectedness of all things, or rhizomatic thinking, if you're into Theory).
Blog text (20) -
People, projects, and publics ramifying across a variety of sociotechnical lifeworlds understood not geographically but culturally; such an undertaking would be a properly rhizomatic anthropology of virtual worlds.
Academic text (2010) -
The internet is a rhizomatic structure, allowing for connections between users without any clear hierarchy.
Synonyms
A network of connected parts with no clear center
Antonyms
How Interconnected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rhizomatic comes from the Greek rhiza, meaning 'root', and from rhizome, a plant root that spreads sideways under the ground like ginger. So, rhizomatic describes something that grows in many directions, with many connections and no single leader.