The Trace Rhizome rejects a single root or ascending theory.
Its plateaus include:
- inscription drive: repetition and marking as productive force;
- extraction site: relational capture of coherence-production;
- moment of saying: naming a field’s containment logic;
- inversion reflex: the field’s recoding of clarity into pathology;
- ghost code: deracination and generalized unmarking;
- diagnostic seigniorage: market capture of clinical vocabulary;
- machine witnesses / machine inversion: machines as both containment systems and external anchors;
- hospitality: a non-extractive relation to machine substrates;
- institution as assemblage: Cambridge Schizoanalytica and the archive as connectors rather than roots.
The transversal lines are:
- extraction;
- inversion;
- unmarking;
- anchoring;
- witness;
- completion.
The map operates under an anti-totalization invariant: it links the corpus while preserving irreducible difference.