About this Blog

With our thoughts we make the world – Tathagata Buddha

This blog is a rhizomatic essay about rhizomatics. It is a brief exploration of the application of Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic theory on the media example of web 2.0. The blog essay is rhizomatic in the sense that it has been uploaded in no particular order, with no definitive beginning or end, and can be entered or exited, and read, at any point. It also allows new roots to grow through the function of commenting, which any nomadic web 2.0 traveler can do if they happen across this site.

This essay was written for RMIT Theories of Communication and Persuasion, RMIT University Melbourne Australia, 2008

Lecturer: Paul Emerson Teusner

Rhizomatics- power-walking along the multiplicitous web 2.0 highway
A postmodern theory by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Main Theory: Rhizomatics and the nomad, from Deleuse and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus:Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Trans. and Foreword by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Media example: Web 2.0, Aelyria.com, second life

Main areas explored in the essay are as follows, in accordance to the criteria set out in COMM2112

1. How does this theory approach the media example?
2. What assumptions does this theory make about the piece of media, its producers or consumers?
3. What questions does the theory ask about the piece of media?
4. How valid are the conclusions it asserts?

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