Mapping Posthuman Rhizomes and Assemblages in the Spatial Distribution of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash

This article explores the concept of Rhizome and maps the various heterogeneous assemblages it can initiate when used as a perspective in Posthuman discussions. Neal Stephen's cyberpunk novel Snow Crash uses intensive qualities like movements, affects, scans and lines as a virtual potential to define the real world. By tracing these qualities in the language of the novel and exploring its affect in the reader a posthuman way of binding the human-non-human and in human is possible.