creating a cosmology for information literacy presentation by john russell
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What is a rhizomatic resource? Anything that creates connections to other resources Resources can be more or less rhizomatic Just because something is less rhizomatic does not mean that it is uselessTRANSCRIPT
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Creating a Cosmology for Information Literacy
Presentation byJohn Russell
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What is a rhizome?
• From Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [Mille plateaux]
• Based on principles of CONNECTION, HETEROGENEITY, and MULTIPLICITY
• Using these principles, we can create a system that values the multiplication of connections
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What is a rhizomatic resource?
• Anything that creates connections to other resources
• Resources can be more or less rhizomatic• Just because something is less rhizomatic does
not mean that it is useless
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Moving in the Rhizomatic Universe
• When we research, we can engage in a few different movements to locate bibliographic objects:– Peripatetic: horizontal movement from resource
to resource (searching in an encyclopedia, then in the library catalog, then in a database, etc.) to collect articles/books
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Rhizomatic Universe, cont.
• Chthonic: vertical, “downward” movement within a specific article (mining footnotes, endnotes, a bibliography) to identify articles/books
• Hieratic: vertical, “upward” movement from a specific article to the sacred sphere of being cited by other books/articles (citation indexes, “Cited by” function in Google Scholar)
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Rhizomatic Apocalypse
Every cosmology needs an apocalyptic element. For the rhizomatic universe, this element is the PUNCTUM. A punctum is a point from which little or no movement is possible, a bibliographic object that lacks capacity for multiplying connections.
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Rhizomatic Apocalypse
The punctum can exist objectively or subjectively, though an objectively existing, absolute punctum is unknown in nature. Think of the punctum as an asymptotic concept.
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Our Cosmology MappedHieratic
Peripatetic
Chthonic
Punctum