Buttercups and Rhizomes -- Peter Leyland
Of Buttercups and Rhizomes * No, you can't have your ball back Buttercups and Rhizomes: a metaphor for our internet age This is a picture which I posted on Twitter recently and which got a number of likes – eighteen in all - which believe me isn’t that many. Some people get hundreds. The touch of heavy humour in the picture is my attempt to catch the eye of you, the reader. I must apologise, however, that this story is not about lions or even football, but an account of a thesis and a number of books that I have received from those with whom I have made a Twitter connection. My story begins with reference to a doctoral thesis by one of those contacts about reimagining the educational curriculum, a subject close to my heart. This is a lengthy study called, Rhizomes, Assemblages and Nomad War Machines , by Kay Sidebottom. It was a challenging read and I made notes as I went along, but it contained the idea that Twitter is like a ...