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locations and the pupil community be distributed to other formal learning settings, the DNAwould travel with them – Just as when the rhizomes of an iris are dug up and destroyed in onelocation, its DNA lives on in newly formed rhizomes elsewhere."Delueze and Guattari use rhizome, a biological term that refers to a root-like stememitting roots and usually producing leaves at its apex, as a metaphor for describing socialformation in advanced capitalist societies. The internet, with its rapid growth andacceptance worldwide, is emerging as the form of sociality connecting institutions,governments, business, social groups and individuals in an irrevocable bond ofinterdependency. " (Polsani, 2002, 2 p. 2)As indicated elsewhere in this thesis, the DNA of the modern internet is network adapters, Cat 6cabling, rj45 plugs, Ethernet switches, optic fibre cabling and so on. In IM2, I recorded thecontribution of Bob Bowie to the development of RE-Net. He participated (and continues to doso) in a range of ‘social worlds’, one of which is his family from whom he derived the pivotal bitof information we required to make it all work i.e. html. As part of that learning process we bothaccessed the many online fora, helpsites and emerging 'internetworks’, which exploded once‘geeks’ had seized control of the contemporary weapons of mass communication. It was hisbrother, through participation in his own professional networks, who had come across thiscritical piece of data. Polsani’s hypothesis is that ‘flow’ occurs at the point at which informationis both the subject and object of a knowledge generation event.“The lifeblood of rhizomic network is the information. As the information space is atemporalized space whose basic state is motion, the information is in constant flow.Continuously added, enhanced, transformed, exchanged and altered, the informationceases to be a product to be consumed, instead it is characterized by the fluidity of Flowsthat are constantly circulated. The nodes of the network are the access points forinformation flows, and the access point is where information space is revealed in theinterface. The Interface Space is the arena of performative actions of individuals andinformation alike. This Interspace comes into existence only for the duration the node isactivated.” (Polsani, 2002, 1 p. 2)It was our participation in and contribution to knowledge creation networks that enabled RE-Netto be born and thus provide unrivalled access to subject teachers of RE in their social world.245Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)