Deluze and Guattari - February 8, 2008

This article was over my head! This is what I got...

The rhizome that D & G refer to is a linked/never-ending amount of information of the web that has no beginning or end. This article applies to the web, because in a way the web is similar to the rhizome. You can get completely lost navigating through the web. A good example of this is facebook or myspace. As creepy as I think both of these sites are, I have pages. I have found my self logging on (which would be the beginning, disagreeing with the Rhizome) but then going from page to page or person to person, often clicking on people that I don't even know! Another example of this is on iTunes. I will be looking for a specific artist or CD and I find myself listening to the artists they suggest (if you like this.. then you will like this...) and I end up getting lost in process and forgetting the reason I even logged into the iTunes store.
I just ventured off from the the main topic or discussion questions from the assigned reading, but yet that again could be similar to the rhizome, or it could just be that I simply got lost in the difficult reading!!