what if we read folks like D&G in terms of experimenting with thinking of matters of concern/interest as-if  (like Jane Bennett’s “strategic” animism/vitalism) and not as literal/scientific projects? What happens if we reassemble our re-presentations of things as-if they were rhizomatic and not tree-like, what might this mean to our broader senses/uses of  having roots, blood and soil, vertical axes, etc, without insisting that the represented/assembled things (in the world) are literally organized/shaped as rhizomes (or whatever perspicuous re-minder you might be taken with)?