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A rhizome is a horizontal, root-like stem that extends underground and sends out shoots to the surface. Rhizomes connect plants in a living network. Rhizome is also a figurative term used by [Gilles Deleuze] and [Felix Guattari] to describe non-hierarchical networks of all kinds.

Deleuze and Guattari write: "To these centered systems (arborescent structures), the authors contrast acentered systems, finite networks of automata in which communication runs from any neighbor to another, the stems or channels do not preexist, and all individuals are interchangeable, defined only by their state at a given moment--such that the local operations are coordinated and the final, global result synchronized without a central agency."

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