a rhizome is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominatedWestern thought from Porphyrian trees to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams. Arborescences arehierarchical, stratified totalities which impose limited andregulated connections between their components. Rhizomes, bycontrast, are non-hierarchical, horizontal multiplicities whichcannot be subsumed within a unified structure, whosecomponents form random, unregulated networks in which anyelement may be connected with any other element. (Bogue, 1968, p. 17)

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The polemical style of Mille plateaux, like that of L’Anti-Oedipeowes much to the divided structure of its writing. Its camerastylo prose constantly splinters into different ‘tracks’ thatrecombine, bend, and bifurcate, looping back, unwinding andknotting together. (Conley, 1999, p. 257)