An hypertextual course is an underground root system that attaches itself to other root systems and scatters in all directions.
Out in the air, there is nothing arborescent about it. Unlike an "arbre de connaissance" as Descartes would have said, there are not millions of roots growing into an orderly tree, but a million little underground proliferations. The simultaneous presence of heterogeneous space means that there is no hierarchized distance between one element and another; they are in the same territory, grafting ideas across continents irrespective of national boundaries. The course in the hypertextual setting, like Deleuze and Guattari's "book-machine", connects and assembles in movement, without necessarily losing or gaining anything and without giving more importance to one element over another.
Out in the air, there is nothing arborescent about it. Unlike an "arbre de connaissance" as Descartes would have said, there are not millions of roots growing into an orderly tree, but a million little underground proliferations. The simultaneous presence of heterogeneous space means that there is no hierarchized distance between one element and another; they are in the same territory, grafting ideas across continents irrespective of national boundaries. The course in the hypertextual setting, like Deleuze and Guattari's "book-machine", connects and assembles in movement, without necessarily losing or gaining anything and without giving more importance to one element over another.
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