Chapter 27

1980
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

• introduced rhizomatic writing - which they did not intend to feature a specific medium or even style, only to describe certain texts
• challenged readers to "reconsider dualism" and according to Foucault, "to be radical without being sad"
• a book is an assemblage of lines articulated and divided with various rates of flow
• attempted to quantify literature "There is no difference between what a book talks about and how it is made. Therefore a book also has no object"
• literature is about dichotomy and reflection it branches out like a tree

It would be hard for me to agree completely to the ideas in this article that I can ascertain and the rest is mostly a blur. I don't feel that all literature can be interpreted without meaning, doesn't that disrespect the author in some way? I can see where they're going with this idea, as a way to make all mediums connected by their innate structure and composition, but I'm not sure how interested I am in removing all meaning from a given work, I would feel cheated.