/lit/ - Literature

i'm borrowing this image and this thought from another thread but it was something interesting prompted from another anon here on /lit/: the network is a rhizome, an unstructured one. deleuze is really good for thinking about the implications of the internet, among other things. what land borrows from this in turn is a whole lot of dark possibilities for capitalism and consumer culture on the internet, the possibility of robot intelligenesis, much else. and, of course, his incredibly dark politics.

but it's also a new-model form of communism that comes unstuck from ideas of a huge or unified *working class.* and that also has these big implications. and even then: in the world where everyone is capitalizing constantly on everyone else, who are the real capitalists? you can jump down deleuze's throat for this and say, well, there you go: ultimate neoliberal-globalist apologetics, right there. but we should probably try to imagine something more constructive.

the rhizome is a kind of prototype for the internet, and the internet is basically everything today. and after the fall of the soviet union (and, increasingly, post-1990 american hyperpower, anglosphere hegemony, &c) we are in a new world.

just some random other things on the deleuze-land connection, i suppose. that land is doing something with deleuze that is analogous to what marx does with hegel. that's not *all,* of course.

random thoughts.

>>11685932
>unironically reading nick land will help you understand deleuze

i agree with this. i sometimes think that land is to deleuze what marx is to hegel.

another anon on this board said that the rhizome was basically the unstructured network. i think that's a useful thing to bear in mind, that D&G offer a way of thinking about the internet. later on, land adds his own terror-aspect to this by positing a self-positing automatic intelligence in this driven by capitalism, and other things. but his is only one interpretation of this, and not the only one. i only got interested in deleuze after reading land, so i tend to view him from that perspective.

but it kind of makes sense.

>>11274133
>there doesnt seem to be any way to sum up what the fuck they were trying to say
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A rhizome does not have a hierarchy, there is no beginning and end; any point you pick within a rhizome will be a middle. A Thousand Plateaus is itself a rhizome.