A Thousand Plateaus: Arborescence and Rhizomes
The book imitates the world, as art imitates nature. The law of reflection: one becomes two. This is the “most classical and well reflected, oldest, and weariest kind of thought”.
Art imitates nature with a civilzation, culture, society — a second nature. But Nature itself is not one-without-two; nature is not unchanging. There is a dynamism of and in nature, and no reflectivity is necessary for it’s growth which is a growth outwards, rather than up. Deleuze uses the examples of taproots, rhizomes, and an equation: (n-1).
Nature is “neither reducible to the the One or the multiple.” It is not composed of units. Units are the basis of analysis, which is always removed from nature - especially when oriented back towards nature. Nature is composed “of dimensions, or rather directions in motion”.
“It has neither beginning nor end, but always a middle (milieu) from which it grows and overspills.”
“It constitutes linear multiplicities with n dimensions having neither subject nor object, which can be laid out on a plane of consistency, and from which the One is always subtracted (n - 1).”
“When a multiplicity of this kind changes dimension, it necessarily changes in nature as well, undergoes a metamorphosis.”
