The term Rizoma was introduced by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to explain the ties between cognitive content that oppose the type of articulation most usual, in progressive branching from an initial concept. This is the most common way of articulation in the formal sciences or in the systematic exhibitions of any discipline in which initial principles or theses are beginning and then the rest of its concepts go into progressive.

These authors broke the dichotomous logic by taking the botany the term rhizomatic, using the rhizome metaphor to describe the theory and research that allows access and exit from non-hierarchical points in the representation and interpretation of data. They affirm: "A rhizome does not start and does not end, it is always in between. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, the tree imposes the verb "being", but the rhizome has the conjunction by tissue and, in this conjunction there is enough force to reveal the verb being. " For them, the rhizomatic lacks unity that can be centered, transverse relationships and connections are established. There are no points in the rhizome and yes interconnected lines in continuous and changing processes.