From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:59:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Rhizome > > Gvcharter mentioned the Gainesville area in Florida and this got me thinking > > about a forest, for the life of me I cannot recall which one, but apparently > > it has been understood as having the largest interconnected root system -- > perhaps that world's largest organism, next to the Gaia hypothesis, I > assume. There may be some sort of interesting analogy lying here... arguably > > my research is not about 'living' matter so to speak but about narrative > manifestations in urbanity, yet perhaps a D and G feared metaphor is out > there somewhere. Steve, Right, Gainesville to Gaia... living matter and urban narrative... Is there some sort of inter/face here? Manuel De Landa, in a Deleuzian book about living matter and urbanism called _A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History_ has this line concerning the "BwO formed by teh underground rodent city" that have "escaped urbanization" (262). Rats, of course, are crabgrass, weeds. Where are the weeds in one's urban narrative? You know, I have had this idea for an art exhibit that I'll one day get around to but it is to go around to deserted malls and use GPS or some other technology to map out all the weeds that have filled in all the crevices. Next, I'll digitally take out all sense of these husks and hulls of these big box shopping complexes and show something of the seams that have taken place. The urban narrative, it seems to me, is in these seams, these underground rodent cities, the roots of banyan-rhizomes that are but roots above and below ground such that get entangled in power and sewer lines... Indeed, there are parts of Florida that has begun making cell phone transformers in the shape of trees, and what are we with our cell phones but birds calling to each other: "Where are you?" "I am over here." "Where are you?" "I am over here." (NPR ran a nice story about cell phone-birds recently.) Analogy? D & G are strange in not thinking about language as "metaphor," and if one reads _Diff and Rep_ closely one will find an aversion to the word "analogy" too... Geof
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