What the FUCK is a rhizome? Am i fucking stupid or is Deleuze completely insane?

What the FUCK is a rhizome? Am i fucking stupid or is Deleuze completely insane?

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It's a network without absolute hierarchies, where the different connections form a decentered system with intensities flowing across it. I hope the crappy pic helps

>n botany and dendrology, a rhizome (/ˈraJzoʊm/, from Ancient Greek: rhízōma "mass of roots",[1] from rhizóō "cause to strike root")[2] is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks and rootstocks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow perpendicular to the force of gravity. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.[3]

>If a rhizome is separated each piece may be able to give rise to a new plant. The plant uses the rhizome to store starches, proteins, and other nutrients. These nutrients become useful for the plant when new shoots must be formed or when the plant dies back for the winter.[3] This is a process known as vegetative reproduction and is used by farmers and gardeners to propagate certain plants. This also allows for lateral spread of grasses like bamboo and bunch grasses. Examples of plants that are propagated this way include hops, asparagus, ginger, irises, Lily of the Valley, cannas, and sympodial orchids. Some rhizomes which are used directly in cooking include ginger, turmeric, galangal, fingerroot, and lotus.

>Stored rhizomes are subject to bacterial and fungal infections, making them unsuitable for replanting and greatly diminishing stocks. However, rhizomes can also be produced artificially from tissue cultures. The ability to easily grow rhizomes from tissue cultures leads to better stocks for replanting and greater yields.[4] The plant hormones ethylene and jasmonic acid have been found to help induce and regulate the growth of rhizomes, specifically in rhubarb. Ethylene that was applied externally was found to affect internal ethylene levels, allowing for easy manipulations of ethylene concentrations.[5] Knowledge of how to use these hormones to induce rhizome growth could help farmers and biologists producing plants grown from rhizomes more easily cultivate and grow better plants.

It's a system of roots generated from a single plant with an underground stem. Think ginger, ginseng, tumeric, etc.
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Well, his rhizome is an inversion of the traditional arboreal self. In classical metaphysics the soul is seen as being created by God; god being the roots and the soul being the branch. Whereas deleueze wants to create a rhizomatic person whose personality comes from below, individualising infra rational objects from "below", which religion would call "demons". He's heavily influenced by western occultism.

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Like neurons?

Never heard it interpreted in such a religious way, seems kind of scary.