This paper is a narrative experiment inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) figuration of the rhizome. It is a textual assemblage of popular and academic representations of cyborgs that might question, provoke, and challenge some of the dominant discourses and assumptions of curriculum, teaching, and learning. Emboldened by Deleuze's penchant for inventing new terms for his figurations, the author has coined the term "rhizomANTic" (sometimes "rhizomantic") to name a methodological disposition that connects Deleuze's rhizomatics, ANT (actor-network theory), and Donna Haraway's (1997) "invented category of semANTics, 'diffractions'." Diffraction is "an optical metaphor for the effort to make a difference in the world," which Haraway (1994) also represents by the activity of making a "cat's cradle"--a metaphor that imagines the performance of sociotechnical relations as a less orderly and less functionalist activity than the word "network" often conveys. (Contains 4 figures and 18 notes.)