User talk:Michael C.
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[edit] Rhizomes and mutualism
Hi! I'm actually reading A Thousand Plateaus now, so if & when I found some more info about that i'll add it. Rhizome, as you know, is a biological concept, but Deleuze transformed it into a philosophical concept which has a lot more extense sense than its biological one (he often took concepts from scientific or artistic fields and used them in his field; for example, the use of multiplicity to oppose the philosophical dualism between the One & the Multiple (which you found in Aristotle, for example). Here's what I found on horizontal gene transfer page:
- "There is also recent evidence that the adzuki bean beetle has somehow acquired genetic material from its (non-beneficial) endosymbiont Wolbachia."
Isn't that a mutualism gene transfer? On the same page, followed:
- "Sequence comparisons suggest recent horizontal transfer of many genes among diverse species including across the boundaries of phylogenetic "domains". Thus determining the phylogenetic history of a species can not be done conclusively by determining evolutionary trees for single genes." [1]
This in particular interested Deleuze, as he was opposed to Hegel's philosophy of history, which is based in a kind of spiraling evolutionary scheme, with an ultimate "end of History" (Marx brought Hegel "back into his feet", and transformed the "end of history" into the ideal communist society). Deleuze opposed any evolutionary reading of human history, since he did not believe in the notion of a linear unidirectional progress. Lapaz 15:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
