Developed by French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the rhizome has emerged as a dominant image within postmodernism and postructuralism. There is no mother tongue, only a power takeover by a dominant language within a political multiplicity.
Language stabilizes around a parish, a bishopric, a capital.
It forms a bulb. It is always possible to break a language down into internal structural elements, an undertaking not fundamentally different from a search for roots. There is always something geneological about a tree. It is not a method for the people. A method of the rhizome type, on the contrary, can analyze language only by decentering it onto other dimensions and other registers.