Single Idea 21848

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 2. Freedom of belief]

Full Idea

There are lines which do not amount to the path of a point, which break free from structure - lines of flight, becomings, without future or past, without memory, which resist the binary machine. …The rhizome is all this.

Clarification

A rhizome is a low-level plant putting out innumerable roots

Gist of Idea

Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system

Source

Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], II)

Book Reference

Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.19


A Reaction

The binary machine enforces simplistic either/or choices. I assume the 'lines' are to replace the Self, with something much more indeterminate, active and changing.

Related Idea

Idea 21843 People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight' [Deleuze]