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What this place is
A way to go deeper down the rabbit hole.

This site shows the connections between books by different authors. If you're going deep on a subject, it shows where it comes from and where it continues — often in directions you weren't looking for.

It's not here to help you choose what to read: it's here to show that deep connections exist between books, and to make you want to follow them. From a theme, an author, a title, a thousand threads branch out.

Why "rhizome"

It's the name for the root structure of tubers. Unlike other roots, a rhizome doesn't dig down: it spreads sideways, and from every strand more strands branch out.

The connections between these books work the same way — no center, no hierarchy, just branches weaving into each other. That's why the shared concepts here are called rhizomes.

The map

Forty-four books, and the threads
that hold them together.

Every book here arrived by way of another. You can enter through three different doors: a question, an author, or a concept.

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From here you get to…

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I'll let you know when new
rhizomes sprout.

An author sitting down at the table, a concept opening a path that didn't exist before, one more question to start from. No fixed schedule: I write when it happens.

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