tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717220359532645973.post8234441345440141134..comments2023-04-09T05:54:18.997-04:00Comments on Learning Complexity: #change11 The Nothing Rhizome Pt 2keith.hamonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717220359532645973.post-19184486321762662272011-12-24T19:03:52.015-05:002011-12-24T19:03:52.015-05:00John Mak and Jaap, thanks for the comments. I wish...John Mak and Jaap, thanks for the comments. I wish I understood D&G more, but I'm working on it. Jaap, I actually share your reservations about their language, though I think I'm beginning to understand <i>why</i> they write as they do. I think they are trying to counter the clean, well-lighted, objective prose dominant in Western prose for the past several centuries. They do a damned good job of it — I can hardly understand anything they say on the first reading.<br><br>And yes, John Mak, they are talking about an individual's sensemaking, but as informed by the interactions between the individual and her environment and discourse communities. I don't think they believe that any individual makes sense alone, but only in the complex interactions with their environment. At least, that's how it makes sense to me. As Morin says, it's <i>dialogic</i> — never resolved, just talked about from now on. So let's keep talking.<br><br>Merry Christmas.Keith Hamonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404376705918243534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717220359532645973.post-60681852997777704682011-12-24T17:26:35.849-05:002011-12-24T17:26:35.849-05:00Hi Keith, thank you for this introduction of Deleu...Hi Keith, thank you for this introduction of Deleuze & Guattari. The rhizome philosophy is attractive but D&G are using this French philosophical argot that makes their ideas dark and un clear to me. (Too much Frencg philosophers in my education:) in the past)connectivhttp://connectiv.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717220359532645973.post-6646090418219454312011-11-13T07:45:57.999-05:002011-11-13T07:45:57.999-05:00Hi Keith,Thanks for such rich elaboration on rhizo...Hi Keith,<br>Thanks for such rich elaboration on rhizome and rhizomatic learning in MOOC. Love how you have envisioned it & charted out the map for "us" to visualise and recognise. You mentioned that "Deleuze and Guattari give us a couple of strategies for dealing with rhizomes such as a MOOC" and "The first strategy for knowing in a rhizomatic structure is cartography, or mapping. Mapping is a process of constantly monitoring and testing reality, assessing the feedback, and adjusting the map." Would this mapping be based on individual's sensemaking and/or collective/connective crowdsourcing? I greatly appreciate your time in responding to my question, and surely this has added my understanding of rhizome - that is not a thing (nothing). John :)suifaijohnmakhttp://suifaijohnmak.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com