Risome vs Network

Abstract

The modern philosophical thought shows obvious features the end of postmodern age and formation of a new social-cultural reality. It is reflected, firstly, in developing concepts of a network society, secondly, in forming the network approach and, thirdly, at conceptually terminological level involving displacement from notion of rizome to that of network. The article shows, that concepts of rizome and network, despite etymological relationship, belong to various world outlook contexts. Further the point of view according to which rizome can be interpreted not only as fundamental concept of a postmodern discourse, but, first of all, as concept by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari is proved. In this case the network is treated as “the plan of immanenc”, “grounds of concepts ”, hence, on the one hand, it possesses much greater volume and heuristic potential than rizome does, on the other hand it demonstrates polyphonic complexity and interdependence of various processes and phenomena of the modern world, moreover, the network has attributive properties of universal correlation, global connectivity and powerful intension to integrate.