The rhizome and the figure of the book in virtual and dematerialized information

discussions in Information Science and Knowledge Organization

Abstract

The rhizome is the proposal of a philosophical thought applied to virtual information and, at the same time, the realities not contemplated in Information Science and Knowledge Organization in the dematerialization of its object. the research aims to discuss dematerialized information under the philosophical concept of the rhizome and its principles in Information Science and Knowledge Organization, as well as the figure of the book. The discussion is perpetuated in critical aspects in which Information Science and Knowledge Organization establish limits, traces, structures or authority in their way of treating, organizing and sharing information and knowledge. The research has as methodological procedures a theoretical, bibliographical study, which interrelates aspects of the philosophy of difference, more precisely, the study of the rhizome of Deleuze and Guattari with Information Science and the Organization of Knowledge. Contrary to the idea of ​​a tree, the rhizome automatically emerges in the relations of the trees of knowledge used as a basis for organizing and representing knowledge. These representational models can no longer organize knowledge and information in the face of the liquefaction of their structures in the virtual pole. The problem is to understand how Information Science adjusts to the rhizomatic reality of virtual information.