Rhizome: the fluidity of desire in writing

Abstract

The present work is a reflection on the relationship between the concepts of rhizome, desire and writing based on the examination of some sections of A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari. I start with analyzing of the conceptualization carried out by these authors, and I attempt clarify the idea that writing is a form in which desire can be produced as a rhizome. To do this, I will show the way in which this last concept is articulated with other plateaus of Deleuzian work, in order to offer a reading of the processes that occur in the production of the unconscious and the way in which it is possible draw lines of flight in the political relationship between the molar and the molecular. Finally, I will characterize writing as a micropolitical process of desire.