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Key Ideas
- Rhizome over hierarchy → Knowledge and systems are networked, decentralized, and non-linear rather than tree-like or top-down.
- Assemblages (agencements) → Everything (ideas, people, institutions) exists as dynamic combinations of parts, always shifting and reconfiguring.
- Deterritorialization / reterritorialization → Systems continuously break apart and reform in new configurations.
- Lines of flight → Paths of escape or transformation that break from established structures and create new possibilities.
- Anti-totalizing structure → The book itself resists linear narrative, embodying its philosophy through form (read anywhere, connect freely).
Why It Matters
- It provides a conceptual foundation for thinking about JPL, Lookout, and your broader system as networked, evolving assemblages rather than fixed products.
- It validates building in non-linear, modular ways—where pages, notes, and systems connect rhizomatically instead of hierarchically.
- It reinforces your instinct toward process, emergence, and continuous recombination as the core mode of creation.
