Not sure I understand what you’re trying to say about being meat, or ham free, but the comment-free bit is purely down to you, the reader – comments are here if comments are made (even if they get lobbed in the spam-bin).

Regards,

David.

Tsk. I notice that most of the blog is not only spiced-meat and ham free but comment free.

Yours, extraordinarily cheesed off after enjoying a post and then being treated like a shill.

It’s worth pointing to Dave Cormier’s original piece on (http://innovateonline.info/?view=article&id=550) Rhizomatic Education too. The key point from that paper for me is that the speed of conversion from information to knowledge is such that there is no longer any possibility of an independently verifiable canon in many subject areas.

The terms ‘possibility’ and ‘desirability’ often get conflated in such discussions. So I think it worth reiterating: the sheer amount of information that organisations have to deal with, and the speed with which individuals and networks are processing this information mean that many aspects of a ‘traditional education are not possible. This is radical by default.

(Although it would be disingenuous to deny that some people, probably including me, are changeophiles who like a bit of argy-bargy)

Here’s some more links:
The wikipedia page is good on comparing rhizomatous with arborescent. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_%28philosophy%29)
There’s a video here that kind of illustrates the rhizome concept a bit. Again, it’s by Dave Cormier. (http://rhizomatic.net/)

I’ve tried to read 1000 Plateaus, the text/book where the concept of rhizome originated, but it sits on my shelf taunting me. It’s very French and very post-modern.

Thanks.