Category Archives: Rhizomes

#Rhizo24: the reunion

Posted on 14th January 2024 by NomadWarMachine

What were you doing 10 years ago? On January 14th, 2014, #rhizo14 – or Rhizomatic Learning – The community is the curriculum as it was officially called, began. As fellow rhizonauts will remember, this was the brainchild of Dave Cormier, … Continue reading →

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ASCILITE 2021

Posted on 9th December 2021 by NomadWarMachine

Last month Wendy and I gave a presentation about the collaborative poem that happened as a result of a DS106 Daily Create. It was 9am Sydney time, making it early am for Wendy and late evening (10pm) for me, but … Continue reading →

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We’re tired of trees

Posted on 26th September 2021 by NomadWarMachine

We’re tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They’ve made us suffer too much. D&G A Thousand Plateaus. p 15 Of course I’m not really tired of trees – but here’s some from Mugdock that … Continue reading →

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What would Wittgenstein think of remix?

Posted on 15th February 2021 by NomadWarMachine

We were playing a game at the weekend, which Kevin started. We answered by making an acrostic of the word we guessed until we got it right Then Wendy put her twist on it. Different game, different rules. Obviously related … Continue reading →

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Rhizo Reminiscences

Posted on 22nd January 2020 by NomadWarMachine

Were were you six years ago? When I asked myself that question earlier this week I realised that I was participating in the first week of rhizo14 So much has happened since then – so much that I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Who owns a hashtag?

Posted on 20th November 2019 by NomadWarMachine

I’m doing a MOOC from Futurelearn at the moment with some friends: Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations It’s interesting, I am getting to use some familiar software (TAGS) and some new stuff (Tableau), and it’s good … Continue reading →

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It depends how you look at it

Posted on 8th August 2018 by NomadWarMachine

There’s a story that’s often told about a bunch of blind men and an elephant. Each man only encounters a part of the elephant and, based on their partial understanding, disagree with the others about the *real* nature of the … Continue reading →

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Cargo Cults

Posted on 31st December 2017 by NomadWarMachine

Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I think that’s probably true of many things and not just limited to technology – that many things that others do look like magic from the outside. … Continue reading →

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A map is not a tracing

Posted on 1st November 2017 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s inspiration for #Mapvember comes from Deleuze and Guattari’s writings on the rhizome. This is one of the passages in A Thousand Plateaus (ATP) that I return to again and again: Make a map, not a tracing … What distinguishes the … Continue reading →

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Ampen, Don’t Dampen

Posted on 24th June 2017 by NomadWarMachine

A week of reflection. Finding that friends were hurting and we didn’t know. Knowing that I’d been hurt as well. What to do? What to think? What to say? A slogan from Terry jingling around in my head resulted in … Continue reading →

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