Milagros Elena RODRÍGUEZ
Plurais - Revista Multidisciplinar, Salvador, v. 7, n. 00, e023004, 2023. e-ISSN: 2177-5060
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29378/plurais.v8i00.18909 11
The principle of the reintroduction of the subject plays a crucial role as it highlights that all
knowledge is a construct of the mind (Morín, 1994).
Returning to the idea of insignificant rupture, essential for planetary decolonial
research, the rhizome is a system that "never ceases to reconstitute itself" (Deleuze; Guattari,
1980, p. 15, our translation), following a continuous dialectic of deterritorialization and
reterritorialization. In this context, complex processes of resistance, assimilation,
reinterpretation, and reinvention occur amid colonization and evasion. This event involves
"modern demands for recognition formulated in very ancient languages or, conversely,
demands for recognition of one's values (like the community itself) in modern languages, such
as democracy and human rights" (Zárate, 2013, p. 51, our translation).
With the property of significant rupture, planetary decolonial research proves to be
"connectable in all its dimensions, dismantlable, alterable, subject to constant modifications"
(Deleuze; Guattari, 1980, p. 18, our translation). It addresses the ecology of action and
incorporates the recursive principle, going beyond total regulation by including self-
production and self-organization. These processes of revising tools are susceptible to
numerous mutations in different contexts, shaped by oppressors, and many offer false
liberations. Such issues require a thorough approach in planetary decolonial investigations.
With the breaking of the signifier, the rhizome, like a map, "does not replicate a closed
unconscious in itself, it constructs it" (Deleuze; Guattari, 1980, p. 17, our translation),
configuring itself as a decolonial becoming inspired by Deleuze's philosophy (Da Silva;
Ferreira, 2019). In decolonial research, trans methods do not suppress epistemologies; instead,
they perform their deconstruction and decolonization. Aware that discourse construction
should involve diverse perspectives, the approach values feeling-thinking, experience, and
self-examination. This implies revealing the masked forms of coexistence in cultured and
transcultural communities, often hiding their value, as in situations of ethnic shame.
Decolonial practice and liberating, complex, and transdisciplinary decolonial research "take
the form of decolonial actions/traces (not in research stages, methods, techniques, or tools).
These decolonial actions are community contemplation, alternative conversation, and
configurative reflection" (Ortiz; Arias, 2019, p. 157, our translation).
In the context of the property of connection and heterogeneity of rhizomes, it is
imperative to reassess human relations from the insular multiplicity (Vignola, 2020).
Inclusivity was sought without losing sight of diversity, respecting different cultures without
favoring particular ones. The goal is to contribute harmoniously to the planet, avoiding any