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-	:"We're tired of [[tree]]s. We should stop believing in trees, [[root]]s, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of [[arborescent]] culture is founded on them, from [[biology]] to [[linguistics]]" --''A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'' --[[Deleuze]] & [[Guattari]]	+
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-	"Arborescent" -- having the characteristics of a tree; treelike.	+
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-	'''Arborescent''' is a term coined by the French thinkers [[Deleuze]] and [[Guattari]] to characterize thinking marked by insistence on [[totality|totalizing]] principles, [[binarism]] and [[dualism]]. The terms, first used in ''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'' (1980) where it was opposed to the [[rhizome (metaphor)|rhizome]], comes from the way [[genealogy tree]]s are drawn: unidirectional [[progress (philosophy)|progress]], with no possible retroactivity and continuous binary cuts (thus enforcing a dualist metaphysical conception, criticized by Deleuze). Rhizomes, on the contrary, mark an horizontal and non-hierarchical conception, where anything may be linked to anything else, with no respect whatsoever for specific [[species]]: rhizomes are [[heterogeneity|heterogeneous]] links between things that have nothing to do between themselves (for example, Deleuze and Guattari linked together [[desire]] and [[machine]]s to create the - most surprising - concept of [[desiring-production|desiring machine]]s). [[Horizontal gene transfer]] is also an example of rhizomes, opposed to the arborescent [[evolutionism]] theory. Deleuze also criticizes the [[Chomsky hierarchy]] of [[formal languages]], which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.	+
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-	[[connection]] - [[entity]] - [[relation]] - [[link]] - [[intertextuality]] - [[nexus]] - [[rhizome]]	+
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