During his recent visit to Detroit, famed avant-garde artist Vito Acconci was asked by a student: "To you, what’s the most important book you’ve ever read?" Without hesitation he responded Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. He explained how it debunked the formal alliance between government power and Western philosophy, and provided an alternative model, based on the rhizomic structure of fungus, for philosophical methodology. Ubuweb is a realization of the fungus among us.
In its manifesto, Ubuweb calls itself a "Deleuzian nomadic model: a 4 dimensional space simultaneously expanding and contracting … growing ‘rhizomatically’ with ever-increasing unpredictability and uncanniness." Ubuweb is the answer. Send comments to letters@metrotimes.com.
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