Tag Archives: Rhizome

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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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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Deleuze is hard

Posted on 5th June 2017 by NomadWarMachine

I remember a couple of years ago, maybe during rhizo14, some people getting annoyed about Deleuze and complaining that it was hard. Well, it is – no doubt about that. I’ve spend years practicing philosophy and I still don’t find … Continue reading →

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Rhizome: 7 word story

Posted on 25th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s daily create is to: Explain something technical in 24 seconds and summarize in 7 words as a video. I wanted to try something new, so I Googled for animated text and found FlashVortex and quickly made these to – ahem … Continue reading →

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The rhizome is NOT a metaphor

Posted on 13th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Deleuze & Guattari’s concept of the rhizome in A Thousand Plateaus is not a metaphor. Let me repeat that. IT IS  NOT A METAPHOR. NOT. A. METAPHOR. Despite acknowledging this in their recent paper The rhizome: A problematic metaphor for teaching … Continue reading →

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Feb 14th Rhizopoem

Posted on 14th February 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Ginger’s a rhizome An iris is too Some irises are pink But this one is blue       flickr photo by tanakawho shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license

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Enforcing Independence

Posted on 21st January 2014 by NomadWarMachine

Years ago when I was first a postgraduate I worked for a widening access and widening participation project called On Track. We’d go into FE colleges in teams of two (usually a PG and a UG) and run sessions for … Continue reading →

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#rhizo14 week 1

Posted on 14th January 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve signed up for a rhizomatic course about rhizomatic learning and I’m loving it so far.  The first video talked about “cheating” and collaboration, and immediately sparked thoughts about Jigsaw learning (which readers may remember is a technique I use in my … Continue reading →

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Rhizomatic MOOCS?

Posted on 10th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

Anyone who knows me (probably) knows that I’m very taken with Deleuze and Guattari’s idea that knowledge is rhizomatic, not arborescent (think strawberry, not tree).  I’ve been thinking a lot about MOOCs over the last few weeks, and writing some … Continue reading →

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