Rhizome: productive, not reproductive

I found the D+G introductory chapter on the "Rhizome" to be most helpful in navigating through their more complicated concepts in subsequent chapters and in "Anti-Oedipus."  From my understanding, the rhizome represents inter-relations without an over-riding logic.  These inter-relations are not a schematic of the un-real but, rather, make up a map that actively constructs the real.  In this sense, there is not an over-coding, or tracing of a real that is elsewhere, but a clear orientation towards experimentation that is in direct contact with the real here and now.  I'm interested in the unique nature of the rhizomatic rupture, in which breaks are productive and represent openings or expansions as opposed to closures.  These ruptures or "leads of flight," appear to distinguish the rhizome as a system that spreads in a productive fashion, instead of a developmental tree-like system that is able to reproduce.  It is significant that the multiplicities of the rhizome are described as flat and on a single plane, without the need for depth.  The multiplicity does not, therefore, operate as form or structure--as it is the multiplicity itself which serves as substance.

The Rhizome appears to successfully form a multiplicity without reinstating a self as author/subject.  It is able to unpredictably make connections, in which there are no rules about the assemblage from a central subject figure.  This reminds me of Derrida, in which his insistence on the de-centering of the author/subject and emphasis on the multiplicity of the readers' interpretation appears to resemble a rhizomatic account.