Reaction to the Rhizone

First, the language used in this chapter is, well, sophisticated, perspicacious jargon (pun intended). That is not to say that the language takes away from the intent, just the understanding at times. I am one to explain things as straight-forward as I can, so when someone is describing the internet having "rhizomatic, arborescent inclinations," I tend to drift off. Again though, I do not mean to diminish the integrity of the chapter, I just had to get that out of the way (this is my first blog so I'm guessing that just means I'm writing my thoughts down)...
Anyway, there are two main things I had a reaction to with this chapter. This Rhizone these two men speak of is something that I have always had a lingering thought, just could never ascribe a word to. I mainly had a philosophical vantage point of this rhizomatic web. Philosophy, to me, is so full of similar ideas that for me, or anyone for that matter, to wholly subscribe to just Existentialism, just Descartes, just Buddhism, just Taoism, just Objectivism, just this or that is ridiculous. So many different philosophers have similar ideas or thoughts that there has to be a web of connections, heterogeneity, etc. This thought though is such an undertaking. Imagine trying to actually become knowledgeable of so many philosphies and then be able to tie them together into one web. It's almost impossible. That's where the multiplicity and "assigning rupture" play into this idea. Multiplicity is pretty self-explanatory, even in this regard: there is a multiplicity of knowledge, ideas, information, etc. This mulitiplicity is intrinsically inclined to multiply itself, which then amounts to a philosophic web that is almost never going to end. That is not to say that I can't connect certain ideas and begin my web, it just means that it is never going to end as long as new ideas emerge.
The second thing I thought about was exactly the topic of the chapter: how easily this idea relates to the Internet. I want to know when this was written. By the use of borrowed sentences. I'm guessing it was written in the mid-to-late 90's, which means these two men who coined this idea were definitely on the right track as to the destination of the Internet. It is a web. And our first assignment is most likely a manifestation of this idea; a way to get us to make use of the rhizomatic Internet.
Lastly, attacking Noahm Chomsky eh?

Alex Schmoyer