Clive Baldwin
ABSTRACT
Developments in the philosophical and social science literature around narrative and identity are seeing the emergence of an understanding of the Self as rhizomatic. Rhizomatics in narrative form can be conceptualized as hypertext. In this position paper, we aim, from a social work perspective, to lay out some of the strengths of conceptualizing the self through a rhizomatic hypertextual narrative, helping to resolve the agency/structure problems we find in the literature on the dialogical self by accounting for context, accounting for multiplicity, providing a metaphor for distant and proximal memory, and allowing for shared nodes where individual lines of flight cross.
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Index Terms
- Hypertext as an expression of the rhizomatic self
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