Rhizomatic Bifurcations
From Geert Lovink’s interview with philosopher and writer Werner Künzel:
For Künzel technology is more than a collection of machines; above all, it is a case of tinkering. And texts can be doctored, too. Künzel practices “Ars Combinatoria” in his own unique way: he proves that there is a promising future to thinking in rhizomatic bifurcations [my emphasis], applied at the interface between philosophy and technology. This goes beyond the use of a free, associative writing style in order to unlock hidden stories. Electronic media alter the structure of thinking itself. So the introduction of hypertext could have exciting consequences.
(In the interview, Künzel mentions a 13th-century Spanish priest called Raymundus Lullus, an “inventor and missionary [who] developed a blueprint for a symbolic “text machine” which generates semantic combinations” (whatever that means). Together with his colleague Heiko Cornelius, he translated this machine into … Cobol.)