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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.

Choose the question closest to you

Who do you want to listen to? Pick one or more

Choose a concept to start from

Start here

Choose where to start, above.

From here you get to…

Stay in touch

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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