Ritual of the Rhizome, single channel, 2016
12min 12sec, 1920 x 1080 HD
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The tree serves as a plethora of metaphors that underpin philosophical thought and knowledge, a symbol of logical progression that branches out but always retains a logical start and end. The ritual traces this idea throughout many philosophical texts while presenting the foundational trunk of a tree, weighted in the center of each shot. The sermon of structure is lost in a repetitious ritual, which deconstructs linear logic and the representational image for the rhizomatic. Work was captured during my Signal Culture residency in 2016 with a one of a kind color wobbulator.
The script was created by searching the keywords:
tree, root, trunk, and branch from the following texts
Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy
Reiner Schürmann
A Thousand Plateaus
Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
Beyond the limits of thought
Graham Priest
Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction
Georges Dicker
The Laws of Thought
George Boole
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault
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The structure of appearance
Nelson Goodman
Man against Mass Society
Gabriel Marcel
Introduction to Metaphysics
Martin Heidegger
Logic as a Human Instrument
Francis H. Parker, Henry B. Veatch
Question of Being
Martin Heidegger
Poetry Language Thought
Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives
Don Ihde
Color Wobbulator created by Jason Bernagozzi