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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 Ref
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.
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