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rhizome
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rhizome,
an underground plant stem, growing more or less horizontally, that usually has roots on its underside and bears buds.

rhizome (rīˑ·zōm),
n root system of some perennial plants; consists of roots that grow horizontally; may also bear scales and nodes.

rhizome
an underground plant stem that develops roots and leaves at nodes along its length, e.g. in bracken, Sorghum halepense.


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Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek articulates our "postmodern era" as one where, "although the ideological scene is fragmented into a panoply of positions which struggle for hegemony, there is an underlying consensus: the era of big explanations is over, we need 'weak thought,' opposed to all foundationalism, a thought attentive to the rhizomatic texture of reality.
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And in many ways, each fragment is a window or a path to a rhizomatic territory of texts: 1) from Pessoa's theories on genius and madness to Antonio Mora's philosophical work, or to Caeiro's poetry; 2) from Charles Sanders Peirce's theories (and triadic typologies) to Nietzschean pragmatic-vitalist philosophy, from Poe's tales of horror and perversity to Nordau and Lombroso's criminal theories and so on.
 
 
 
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