• Roots thin out as they go down

• roots suck at what they hold on to and hollow their place out

• roots begin thick, but hold through dispersed thinness

• roots can be pulled up, but with difficulty

• roots can be destroyed by blocked circulation

• roots can find their soil pulled away by the flows they need

• roots don't grasp rocks; they work around them

• roots crack what they hold on to

• roots clog other circulations, and refuse to stay in neat areas

• roots intercept flows and resources and make them flow in new paths

• roots are always exposed

• roots are moved by gradients

• roots intermingle in ways foundations cannot go

• roots compete

• roots travel -- not to mention rhizomes

• roots are transport mechanisms

• roots need air

We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials. (Sterling 1998, 406)

Index
dangerous metaphors

(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001