rhizome ( ... ) "A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles. A semiotic chain is like a tuber agglomerating very diverse acts, not only linguistic, but also perceptive, mimetic, gestural, and cognitive: there is no language in itself, nor are there any linguistic universals, only a throng of dialects, patois, slangs, and specialized languages. There is no ideal speaker-listener, any more than there is a homogeneous linguistic community. Language is, in Weinreich's words, 'an essentially heterogeneous reality.'" (thousand_plateaus) 020903 ... daxle huh, and I thought this was the term for a root-like structure... 020903 ... pilgrim A new term for Vegetive Cognition? Hope yet, for the couch Potatoes! 020904 what's it to you? who go blather from