"The two of us recorded this podcast together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. There is no ideal speaker-listener, only us, your multiplicitous podcast hosts, and you, the actual listener—we form an assemblage, we are machines, plugged into machines, machines are plugged into us. Am I getting it right? Of course there is no "I", but then again we are not trying to reach the point where we no longer say I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether we say I. The point? Oh yes, the point is we are reading Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Welcome to the introduction: Rhizome.

Read along with us: https://libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf

We will be reading this book like a Rhizome (NOT linearly). Up next: Chapter 5: On Several Regimes of Signs.

And yes, we namedrop a lot of old (mostly French) guys in the episode. We refuse to apologize for this, and if you do not like it, we encourage you to plug the following coordinates into the Google machine: Saussure, Lacan, Baudrillard, Habermas, Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, Michel Foucault, Derrida, Marshall McLuhan, Badiou, Bataille

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