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Journal articles on the topic "Notion of Assemblages"
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Crellin, Rachel J. "Changing Assemblages: Vibrant Matter in Burial Assemblages." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27, no. 1 (January 11, 2017): 111–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774316000664.
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In this paper the notion of assemblage, as derived from the work of Gilles Deleuze, is explored in order to consider change in prehistory. An assemblage-based approach that draws on the concept of ‘vibrant matter’ is implemented as the means of understanding change. In this approach all materials are viewed as vibrant and in flux. These ideas are used to create a heterogeneous view of change where assemblages, or parts of assemblages, may change at varying speeds and rhythms and at many different scales. These ideas are explored through the case study of changing burial practices between 3000 and 1500 cal bc on the Isle of Man. I suggest that this kind of thinking allows us to study change differently, and explore the advantages of this approach for archaeology.
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Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka, and Tim Barko. "“Answers,” Assemblages, and Qualitative Research." Qualitative Inquiry 18, no. 3 (January 23, 2012): 256–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800411431562.
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Although educational researchers predominately study complex, multidimensional problems, research findings and proposed arguments can sometimes be characterized as definite, simplified, and prone to particular types of answers or expected outcomes. The authors seek to problematize these definite and simplified notions of answers by looking at some historical developments of dialogue and how answers have been conceptualized within these historical discourses. The authors propose that answers be seen not as a final step in the research process but rather as an opening, an assemblage, a jar, or a call to transition into new forms of questions, new outlooks on methods, and new processes of thought. Finally, the renegotiation of the philosophical notion of answers that the authors will discuss in this article exemplifies potential for a renewed commitment to meaningful educational research.
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Prokić, Tanja. "From Constellations to Assemblages: Benjamin, Deleuze and the Question of Materialism." Deleuze and Guattari Studies 15, no. 4 (November 2021): 543–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2021.0457.
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This essay investigates the differences and points of contact between Walter Benjamin's concept of ‘constellation’ (developed in various texts written between 1920 and 1940) and the notion of ‘assemblage’ as theorised by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Both concepts address the entanglement of discourse and matter, bodies and devices, and raise questions regarding the historicity and temporality of different kinds of multiplicity. Presently, the term ‘assemblage’ figures prominently in the context of the new materialism, a theoretical movement which calls for a renewal of materialist ideas, proposing a break with the historical materialism of the past. Against this backdrop, the essay has a twofold purpose: first, by focusing on the notions of constellation and assemblage, it seeks to highlight the differences and analogies between the materialisms of Benjamin, on the one hand, and Deleuze and Guattari, on the other. Second, by examining the new materialism's appropriation of Deleuzian ‘assemblage theory’, it will not only analyse what is ‘new’ about the new materialism, but also underline its conceptual errors and political problems. Eventually, what the essay argues is that our contemporary (‘new materialist’) understanding of assemblages might indeed benefit from a more thorough engagement with the historical materialism of an author like Benjamin.
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Schritt, Jannik. "Urban Protest in Oil-age Niger: Towards a Notion of ‘Contentious Assemblages’." Urbaner Protest im globalen Süden 69, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/soc.69.1.19.
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Abstract The opening of the first oil refinery in Niger at the end of November 2011 spurred protests and violent clashes between youths and police. These protests turned into urban riots in the days following. In this extended case study, I analyse the processual, performative and affective dimensions of the protests and discuss urban protest and contentious politics in Niger against the backdrop of political machines, a hybrid civil society, the dynamics of intersectionality, and the role of ordering technologies. I argue that influential theories of social movements tend to overlook the heterogeneity, contingency and relational processuality of protest movements, and that taken together, these elements are rather best understood using the holistic notion of ‘contentious assemblages’. Keywords: Collective action, social movements, contentious politics, protest, assemblage, affect, oil, Niger
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Reid, M. A., and M. C. Thoms. "Surface flow types, near-bed hydraulics and the distribution of stream macroinvertebrates." Biogeosciences 5, no. 4 (July 28, 2008): 1043–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-5-1043-2008.
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Abstract. Spatial variation in hydraulic conditions in streams often results in distinct water surface patterns, or surface flow types. Visual assessments of the distribution of surface flow types have been used to provide rapid assessment of the habitat heterogeneity. The efficacy of this approach is predicated on the notion that surface flow types consistently represent a distinct suite of hydraulic conditions with biological relevance. This study tested this notion, asking three specific questions. First, do surface flow types provide a characterisation of physical habitat that is relevant to macroinvertebrates? Second, how well do near-bed hydraulic conditions explain macroinvertebrate distributions? Third, what components of near-bed hydraulic conditions exert the strongest influence on macroinvertebrate distributions? Results show that hydraulic conditions (incorporating direct measurements of near-bed velocity and turbulence in three dimensions) and substratum character (incorporating estimates of particle size distribution, and biofilm and macrophyte cover) within each surface flow type were largely distinct and that macroinvertebrate assemblages differed across flow types in taxon richness and assemblage composition, thus supporting the notion that rapid assessments of surface flow type distributions provide biologically relevant information. Macroinvertebrate assemblages were most strongly correlated with water depth, size of a flow type patch, near-bed velocity in the downstream direction, turbulence in the transverse direction, % pebble, % sand, % silt and clay and macrophyte cover. This study suggests that surface flow type mapping provides an assessment of physical habitat that is relevant to macroinvertebrates. The strong relationship detected between macroinvertebrate assemblages and transverse turbulence also highlights the value of directly measuring near-bed hydraulics. Further investigations are required to test the mechanisms underlying this relationship.
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Reid, M. A., and M. C. Thoms. "Surface flow types, near-bed hydraulics and the distribution of stream macroinvertebrates." Biogeosciences Discussions 5, no. 2 (March 12, 2008): 1175–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-5-1175-2008.
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Abstract. Spatial variation in hydraulic conditions in streams often results in distinct water surface patterns, or surface flow types. Visual assessments of the distribution of surface flow types have been used to provide rapid assessment of habitat heterogeneity. The efficacy of this approach is predicated on the notion that surface flow types consistently represent a distinct suite of hydraulic conditions with biological relevance. This study tested this notion, asking three specific questions. First, do surface flow types provide a characterisation of physical habitat that is relevant to macroinvertebrates? Second, how well do near-bed hydraulic conditions explain macroinvertebrate distributions? Third, what components of near-bed hydraulic conditions exert the strongest influence on macroinvertebrate distributions? Results show that hydraulic conditions (incorporating direct measurements of near-bed velocity and turbulence in three dimensions) and substratum character (incorporating estimates of particle size distribution, and biofilm and macrophyte cover) within each surface flow type were largely distinct and that macroinvertebrate assemblages differed across flow types in taxon richness and assemblage composition, thus supporting the notion that rapid assessments of surface flow type distributions provide biologically relevant information. Macroinvertebrate assemblages were most strongly correlated with water depth, size of a flow type patch, near-bed velocity in the downstream direction, turbulence in the transverse direction, % pebble, % sand, % silt and clay and macrophyte cover. This study suggests that surface flow type mapping provides an assessment of physical habitat that is relevant to macroinvertebrates. The strong relationship detected between macroinvertebrate assemblages and transverse turbulence also highlights the value of directly measuring near-bed hydraulics. Further investigations are required to test the mechanisms underlying this relationship.
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OLEMPSKA, EWA, ATİKE NAZİK, ŞENOL ÇAPKINOĞLU, and DİLEK GÜLNUR SAYDAM-DEMİRAY. "Lower Devonian ostracods from the Istanbul area, Western Pontides (NW Turkey): Gondwanan and peri-Gondwanan affinities." Geological Magazine 152, no. 2 (August 4, 2014): 298–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756814000296.
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AbstractA Lower Devonian silicified ostracod fauna has been recovered from limestone interbeds in the Büyükdere section of the Kozyatağı Member of the Pendik Formation. Forty-one species belonging to 33 genera have been recognized. Twenty-three are already known, and 15 are described in open nomenclature. One genus and three species (Omerliella rectangulatagen. et sp. nov.,Microcheilinella istanbulensissp. nov. andRoundyella goekchenaesp. nov.) are described. Silicified larval stages of trilobites, agglutinated foraminifers and conodonts co-occur with the ostracods. The ostracod assemblages are ‘mixed faunas’, between the epineritic Eifelian Mega-Assemblage, representative of high-energy environments, and the basinal Thuringian Mega-Assemblage, representative of low-energy environments. The conodont faunas of the Pendik Formation represent theserotinus,patulusandpartitusbiozones of the late Emsian – earliest Eifelian. The Emsian ostracods of NW Turkey show numerous species-level links between the Western Pontides (Istanbul Terrane) and assemblages of contemporaneous faunas of the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain), Morocco and Thuringia (Germany), and of similar biofacies. This supports the notion that the Istanbul Terrane, Armorican terrane-collage and northern margins of Gondwana were in geographical proximity in late Early Devonian time.
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Bulínová, Marie, Tyler J. Kohler, Jan Kavan, Bart Van de Vijver, Daniel Nývlt, Linda Nedbalová, Silvia H. Coria, Juan M. Lirio, and Kateřina Kopalová. "Comparison of Diatom Paleo-Assemblages with Adjacent Limno-Terrestrial Communities on Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula." Water 12, no. 5 (May 8, 2020): 1340. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12051340.
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Diatoms are useful ecological and paleolimnological indicators routinely used to reconstruct past conditions and monitor environmental change. Despite this, diatom assemblages from lake sediment cores are often difficult to interpret due to a limited knowledge of the ecology of some species, some of which may originate from the adjacent limno-terrestrial landscape. Here, we compare diatom assemblages from two recently published Antarctic lake sediment cores collected from the northeast and southwest sides of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula. We further compare the sediment core assemblages with adjacent modern communities inhabiting four different limno-terrestrial habitat types to gauge the importance of landscape connectivity in determining paleo-assemblage structure. We found that diatom assemblage composition was significantly different between the two cores, and our survey of modern habitats further revealed habitat type to be an important factor determining the composition of limno-terrestrial samples. Differences in modern habitats were driven primarily by Chamaepinnularia krookiformis in mosses, Nitzschia paleacea in ponds, and Fistulifera pelliculosa in streams. When modern communities were compared with paleo-assemblages through ordination, the cored lake from the northeast side, which exhibited greater hydrological connectivity with its surroundings, clustered more closely with the adjacent modern samples. Meanwhile, the cored lake from the southwest side, which was more hydrologically isolated, formed a distinct cluster separate from the others. Overall, species richness and diversity were greater on the southwest side of the island than the northeast, and the known distributions of diatom taxa supported the notion that Vega Island was a transitional zone between the Maritime and Continental Antarctic bioregions. These results collectively suggested that while environmental and spatial controls may be influential in determining diatom community composition, the unique hydrogeological setting of individual waterbodies was an important consideration for determining the assemblage structure of lake cores. This paper furthermore expanded ongoing research of diatom diversity and distributions on maritime Antarctic islands, which will improve diatom-based interpretations for regional ecological monitoring and paleolimnology in the future.
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Allen, William L., and Bastian A. Vollmer. "Clean skins: Making the e-Border security assemblage." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, no. 1 (August 3, 2017): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775817722565.
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How do border security practitioners engage with data and technology, and what difficulties or limitations arise from these engagements? Responding to calls for critically examining how technological ‘solutions’ are enacted, we analyse the notion of e-Borders in the UK context as an assemblage comprising abstract conditions, concrete objects, and agents whose roles often manifest themselves through perceptions and practices. We draw upon interviews with former and currently serving senior staff from the UK Home Office, UK Border Force, intelligence services, and private sector suppliers. Practitioners’ reflections reveal how political, social, and human factors—including intuition and management cultures—both construct the e-Border assemblage and introduce discontinuities and frictions within it. Using a more tightly specified theory of assemblage, we highlight how human agents contribute to datafied phenomena like border control. In total, our study emphasises how assemblages are dynamic, never entirely coherent, and always being re-made.
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Młoźniak, Iwona. "Debt and sad affects in the society of control." Conatus 2, no. 2 (March 16, 2018): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/conatus.15972.
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The article presents an analysis of the notion of debt in the context of Deleuzean philosophy of affect. The interpretation presented on the following pages is “indebted” to Lazzarato’s conception of the notion of debt as a figure of subjectivity typical for capitalism. Debt is understood as an assemblage of sad passions and considered in relation to social transformations, that have led to contemporary societies of control. The article shows the connection between the concept of debt and the process of individualization characteristic for contemporary society. Firstly, the concepts of control, debt and affect in the philosophy of Deleuze are put into consideration. Secondly, their relation to the forces and assemblages typical for contemporary societies is discussed. In order to grasp the social significance of the philosophical analysis, the article involves a sociological excursion that demonstrates sociological interpretation of the processes that were described in terms of philosophical analysis in the main body of the text.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Notion of Assemblages"
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Voorhees, Jeremy 1978. "Play and tolerance : notions of looseness in social and material assemblages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/27031.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.Includes bibliographical references.
The material scenario provides the most illustrative of entry points into this collection of evidence embodying the difference between play and tolerance. In a material assemblage, the looseness in a joint (expansion, pin, etc.) allows the assemblage to respond to dynamic loads such as wind and heat. Without this play, the construction becomes brittle, unable to flex under the concrete conditions of its situation. The looseness in this sense is productive. Tolerance, in the manufacturing of components, begins with a diagram (engineering specifications) and the looseness in its production, the difference between the diagram and actual, is derogatory. This thesis uses play and tolerance as points of departure and return, organizing a collection of evidence that frames technology, aesthetics, social organizations, systems of control and analysis as a way to illustrate and dramatize the effects of these different attitudes towards looseness, attempting to find places for play in the city in hopes of identifying potential for an urbanity outside the paradigm of compliance.
by Jeremy Voorhees.
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Kaboré, Tasséré. "Simulation de l'impact des dispersions d'éléments fonctionnels sur une condition fonctionnelle d'un assemblage mécanique /." Thèse, Trois-Rivières : Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1999. http://www.uqtr.ca/biblio/notice/resume/03-2208150R.html.
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Gómez, Granda Pablo Andrés. "Matériau et forme pour rien : essai critique sur l'architecture et la notion de dispositif." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010589/document.
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Cette thèse examine et discute la notion de dispositif telle qu'elle a émergé au sein de la philosophie française contemporaine, principalement dans les œuvres de Michel Foucault et Gilles Deleuze. Son intention est critiquer l'association en architecture du structurel et du structural et de proposer une pratique architecturale moins vouée aux agencements de milieux qu'ouverte à des situations de liberté. Pour cela, elle étudie les notions de forme et de fonction en architecture à partir d'un raisonnement d'ordre philosophique sur le « matériau». Trois temps d'une possible histoire en la matière sont envisagés. Dans le premier et le deuxième, consacrés pour l'un au béton, pour l'autre aux matériaux dits « intelligents », l'architecture apparaît dans sa liaison à un mode de l'industrie et à une économie du travail. Dans le troisième, il est montré comment mise en scène et fiction peuvent être parties prenantes d'un traitement en dispositif des matériaux. On peut ensuite sur cette base envisager d'une part de dépouiller la notion de forme de nombre de sens de nature plutôt fonctionnelle, d'autre part de mettre en tension la lecture de Michel Foucault proposée par Giorgio Agamben et de nuancer les concepts et suggestions que cette lecture implique, notamment du côté de l'économie. Tout ce travail est indissociablement architectural et philosophique. Son enjeu est d'établir le caractère essentiel, pour l'un comme pour l'autre domaine de la pensée, d'une notion de forme sans but ou de « forme pour rien ». À cette notion peut correspondre une architecture du « discontinu » dont les matériaux ne s'accordent ni à la structure ni au pouvoir des dispositifsThis Ph.D thesis examines and discusses the notion of dispositif (device) such as it emerged within the contemporary French philosophy, mainly in Michel Foucault's and Gilles Deleuze's works. Its intention is to criticize the association in architecture of the structural and the organization, to propose an architectural practice less dedicated to the assemblages of environments, but which facilitates situations of freedom. For that purpose, this thesis studies the notions of form and function in architecture from a philosophical order reasoning on the "material". Three moments of a possible history on the material are considered. In the first two moments, dedicated to the concrete, and "small" materials respectively, architecture appears in its connection to a mode of the industry and to a labor economy. In the third moment, it is shown how the staging and fiction can contribute to transforming materials into dispositifs. On this base, we move, on the one hand, to strip the notion of form from the functional significations that surround it, while on the other hand, we put in tension Michel Foucault's reading proposed by Giorgio Agamben, putting into context the concepts and the suggestions implied in it, in regards to economy. Ali this work is indissociably architectural and philosophical. Its purpose is to establish the essential character, for both demains of thought, of the notion of an aimless form or "form for nothing ". This notion can be related to an architecture of the "discontinuity" whose materials are neither in harmony with the structure nor the power of the dispositifs
Books on the topic "Notion of Assemblages"
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Buchanan, Ian. The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487887.001.0001.
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A collection of essays written over a period of 20 years focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari paying particular attention to its application in critical theory and cultural studies. Consisting of 20 essays grouped into 5 sections, each focused on a different topic (methodology, film, space, analysis, and assemblages), this collection canvases a wide variety of topics including architecture, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the work of Paulo Freire, Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of schizoanalysis, as well as the concept of the assemblage. It offers close-readings of Deleuze and Guattari’s most important concepts, with detailed and clear explanations of their origin and meaning.
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Dunagan, Colleen T. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491369.003.0001.
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Using Gap’s West Side Story campaign as an example, the Introduction lays out dance’s role in television advertising and its relation to key conceptual themes that inform the arguments of later chapters. Key aspects of disciplinary conventions, the function of spectacle in consumer culture, and the concept of affect are introduced. The chapter explains how concepts (e.g., rhizomes, planes of consistency, assemblages, deterritorialization, BwO) from Deleuze and Guattari’s critical theory inform the analysis and structure of the work. The chapter also introduces Lawrence Grossberg’s notion of cultural formations as a model for approaching popular culture as a topic of study and provides details regarding the scope of the study.
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Isoke, Zenzele. Race and Racialization. Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.38.
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Racialization involves the production and justification of hierarchies of difference through appeals to notions of superiority and inferiority. This chapter considers multiple views of racialization, ranging from accounts of racial formation, intersectionality, matrices of domination, and assemblages to analyses of colonialism, enslavement, and capitalist accumulation by dispossession. In contrast to discredited biological notions of race, it draws attention to processes of racialization that are orchestrated through state policies and practices that subordinate, marginalize, and exclude particular groups while securing the dominance of other groups. The final section of the chapter examines violent racialization in the form of abusive and lethal policing practices, which are best understood as state terror that establishes the parameters of permissible hate.
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Chiang, Nicole T. C. Emperor Qianlong's Hidden Treasures. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528059.001.0001.
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This book reconsiders what actually constitutes the collection of the Qing imperial household during the Qianlong reign, which leads to the re-evaluation of the collection’s historiography, implications, significance and function. It questions the common presumption that there was a single and readily definable assemblage, which includes every physical object that had once been kept in the imperial palaces. This study also challenges the pervasive notion that collecting at the Qianlong court was highly individual and that the supposed collection reflected the emperor’s personal preferences and tastes. Lastly, this research confronts the popular interpretation of the function of the assumed collection, which was to display authority and to project various images to different groups of audience.
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Singer, Kate, Ashley Cross, and Suzanne Barnett, eds. Material Transgressions. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621778.001.0001.
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Material Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. Essays examine how these writers rethink materiality, especially the subject-object relationship, in order to challenge the tenets of Enlightenment and the culture of sensibility that privileged the hegemony of the speaking and feeling lyric subject and to undo supposedly invariable matter, and representations of it, that limited their writing, agency, knowledge, and even being. In this volume, the idea of transgression serves as a flexible and capacious discursive and material movement that braids together fluid forms of affect, embodiment, and textuality. They offer alternative understandings of materiality that move beyond concepts that fix gendered bodies and intellectual capacities, whether human or textual, idea or thing. They enact processes—assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing, shapeshifting, multi-voiced choric oralities—that redefine restrictive structures in order to craft alternative modes of being in the world that can help us to reimagine materiality both in the Romantic period and now. Such dynamism not only reveals a new materialist imaginary for Romanticism but also unveils textualities, affects, figurations, and linguistic movements that alter new materialism’s often strictly ontological approach.
Book chapters on the topic "Notion of Assemblages"
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Nikula, Tarja, Anne Pitkänen-Huhta, Sari Sulkunen, and Johanna Saario. "Rhizoanalysis of Sociomaterial Entanglements in Teacher Interviews." In New Materialist Explorations into Language Education, 135–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8_8.
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AbstractThis chapter explores how the entangled relationship between the material and social in teachers’ perceptions of change can be empirically investigated. More specifically, the chapter adopts a DeleuzoGuattarian rhizoanalytic assemblage approach and the notion of becoming to capture the dynamic and fluid nature of social and material affects. The study re-analyses three teacher interviews from data sets originally collected for different research purposes but with the theme of change relevant in each interview. The findings show that rhizomatic analysis and approaching interviews as assemblages can yield important insights about material realities. For example, they indicate how teachers’ ways of becoming depend on complex and unpredictable intra-actions of social and material reality and how different aspects of materiality may constrain or come into conflict with each other and have agency. The chapter concludes by discussing the methodological implications of the essentially non-hierarchical rhizoanalytic approach.
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Jakonen, Teppo, and Heidi Jauni. "Telepresent Agency: Remote Participation in Hybrid Language Classrooms via a Telepresence Robot." In New Materialist Explorations into Language Education, 21–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8_2.
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AbstractVideoconferencing technologies have become increasingly common in different sectors of life as a means to enable real-time interaction between people who are located in different places. In this chapter, we explore interactional data from synchronous hybrid university-level foreign language classrooms in which one student participates via a telepresence robot, a remote-controlled videoconferencing tool. In contrast to many other forms of video-mediated interaction, the user of a telepresence robot can move the robot and thereby (re-)orient to the space, the other participants and material objects that might be outside his immediate video screen. We employ an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EMCA) perspective to explore Barad’s (Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press: 2007) notion of agency as a distributed phenomenon that emerges from assemblages of humans and materials. We demonstrate the complex nature of telepresent agency by investigating where agential cuts lie in three short episodes that involve mediated perception, touch and movement. Based on the analyses, we discuss how the telepresence technology configures learning environments by making new kinds of competences and forms of adaptation relevant for teachers and students.
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Vollans, Ed. "[Para]Textually Here: Paratexts and Presence in Games." In Paratextualizing Games, 319–40. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839454213-014.
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Dr Ed Vollans' work explores the boundaries between text and context at the point of games promotion. This work first presents a discussion of how we might equate the notion of textual assemblage into discussions of paratexts. Using promotional trailers as a paratextual vehicle for this, then exploring how trailers may be said to present yet keep at a distance the notion of 'the central text' (or game in this instance): ultimately arguing that the framing nature of paratexts allows us to see them as part of the game.
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Elhaik, Tarek. "Curatorial Work." In The Incurable-Image. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403351.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the dominant concepts that form the so-called ethnographic turn in contemporary art, including the cross-cultural approach. It first provides an overview of the notions of montage and animation that have been added to the media anthropological repertoire before discussing post-Mexican assemblages. It then looks at Roger Bartra's notion of a ‘post-Mexican condition’, Silvia Gruner's archaeophobic video Don't Fuck with the Past, You Might Get Pregnant and Eduardo Abaroa's iconoclastic installation The Total Destruction of the National Museum of Anthropology, highlighting the lessons that can be learned from this assemblage of seemingly nihilistic gestures and post-anthropological attitudes. It also introduces the contemporary anthropologist's mode of curatorial work and argues that the stakes behind this ‘assemblage-work’ are nothing less than the differential futures brewing in the contemporariness of contemporary anthropology and contemporary curation.
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Cobb, Hannah, and Karina Croucher. "The Past in the Present." In Assembling Archaeology, 91–127. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784258.003.0006.
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In order to examine the issues that perpetuate inequalities in archaeology in higher education and their consequences, this chapter addresses the areas of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, and socioeconomics, in both the global demographic profile of the profession, and in archaeological research and practice. It begins by considering these areas separately, but ultimately argues that these categories are inextricably entwined and interrelated. The chapter reflects on ways that using an assemblage approach to teaching and learning can create a more equitable system for students, lecturers, and all involved in archaeological pedagogic assemblages, including research, professional practice, and the heritage sector more broadly. At the heart of the argument presented in this chapter is the notion that training, research, and practice all intersect to play a vital role in the wider assemblages of teaching and learning in archaeology.
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Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards. "Towards a Taxonomy of Middle English Manuscript Assemblages." In Insular Books. British Academy, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265833.003.0015.
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The terminology for discussing collections of texts in Middle English is generally lacking precision. Terms like ‘anthology’, ‘miscellany’, or ‘commonplace book’ tend to be used interchangeably and anachronistically. This chapter is an attempt to formulate a more precise terminology for discussing the forms of assemblage in which Middle English literary texts survive, and to offer, with appropriate illustrations, indications of the limits of useful attempts at categorisation among collections in this period. The chapter looks at place and chronology as important aspects of a manuscript’s compilation history, and explores the different accretive ways in which texts were assembled together. It signals the important precedent of texts grouped together in commercially produced booklets, and considers the notion of the book as a pragmatically convenient repository for groups of items, especially short texts.
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Cordella, Antonio. "E-Government Success." In Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, 40–51. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4058-0.ch003.
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E-government is a complex undertaking, which encompasses technological, organizational, and institutional elements. Much research in the field has looked at ICT as a valid solution to make public administration more successful. This chapter offers a richer account of the role played by ICT in transforming public sector organizations, discussing the effects ICTs have in the rationalization of administrative procedures and public sector institutional transformations. The notion of techno-institutional assemblages is introduced to offer a new theoretical ground to frame the notion of success in e-government projects. It is argued here that successful e-government policies are the one that deliver the outcomes, which have led their initiation. Accordingly, the need for new indicators of success is identified.
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King Lee, Tong. "Memesis and Contemporary Chinese Poetry." In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, 164–85. Hong Kong University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528721.003.0009.
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This chapter proposes a conception of world literature based around the idea of distribution. Advancing the idea of memes, it rescales the notion of translation into a more inclusive rubric for imagining the multimodal trajectories of works as their semiotic potentialities are unraveled into assemblages of myriad texts. Using examples from concrete poetry in translations and remediations of contemporary Chinese poetry on new media, it argues that an enlarged notion of translation is needed in respect of world literature. The crosslingual, intersemiotic, and transmedial instantiations of contemporary Chinese writing demonstrate that world literature must take into account the potentialities of translation beyond language as such, that is: where a work may distribute itself across linguistic as well as modal and medial repertoires to herald a new global literary imaginary.
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Radman, Andrej. "3 Northern Line." In Ecologies of Architecture, 55–75. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474483018.003.0004.
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The chapter draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s reading of the concept of the ‘Northern Line’ as a theoretical disposition towards the differential difference in contrast to the dialectical difference. The latter operates in terms of opposition, negation and, ipso facto, resistance correlative to a molar notion of power (pouvoir) and not, as the former, at the (molecular) level of ‘desiring assemblages’. The chapter shows that the ‘Northern Line’ provides an aesthetic reading – neither distributed nor organised around the mind, nor oriented towards cognition – that is capable of escaping architecture’s long-standing dependence on representationalism.
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Cobb, Hannah, and Karina Croucher. "Becoming Archaeologist." In Assembling Archaeology, 26–54. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784258.003.0002.
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This chapter introduces the theoretical concepts at the heart of our argument, beginning with a discussion of critical pedagogy, then demonstrating how archaeology requires its own pedagogic principles. It discusses the material components of archaeological teaching and learning, emphasizing how archaeological learning takes place in multiple locations and through different experiences, and argues that these are not disconnected, but that each feeds into and shapes one another. The chapter then argues that archaeology’s material turn provides a useful place to start re-thinking the materiality of archaeological pedagogy, and new materialist developments within archaeology are reviewed. Also discussed is the broader pedagogic literature, such as rhizomatic learning and the notion of ‘becoming’ in pedagogy. The chapter finally sets out the theoretical framework for the book, arguing that viewing the multiple assemblages of teaching and learning as composed of a range of material and human constituents, we produce a new understanding of processes of archaeological education.
Conference papers on the topic "Notion of Assemblages"
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Isabel Oliver, María. "Resiliency: It Goes Beyond the Hair." In 2018 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2018.11.
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In the January article of The Guardian News ‘How Hurricane Maria forced Puerto Ricans to change their hair’, author Norbert Figueroa reflects on the devastating effects of the category four storm in the US territory. Besides the aftermath caused by floodwaters, massive electric shortage, and structural damages, Figueroa revealed how Hurricane Maria forced adaptations to everyday life, including the way Puerto Ricans styled their hair. Extreme conditions of heat and humidity, exacerbated by the lack of electric power, lead to the acceptance of natural hairdos, to the creation of sidewalk barber shops, and to the formalization of an underground economy where haircuts in the form of currency, were exchanged for power generators. Figueroa’s simple but complex observation is critical in the revelation of creative self-organizing assemblages at the face of concealed realities. If the simple act of hair restructuring convokes taxonomical categorizations, ingenious adaptabilities, spatial re-conceptualizations, and the creation of new underground economies, why isn’t architecture transcending its heteronomous condition to achieve ‘resilient’ solutions? If resilience is defined as ‘the ability of objects to spring back into shape’ after being deformed,’ does it exclude the notion of ‘predictability’? This paper does not bring to the fore the discursivity that the resilient discourse entails, but it is an attempt to question its interpretations and trivial meanings within a ‘utopian’ model that fails to come to terms with the constitution of the physical realm.
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Khmelkova, Natalya, Alexander Agenosov, Anastasia Rudanina, and Maria Vekhova. "Co-Branding as Assemblage: Assemblage Theory, and Brand Alliances in the Digital Era." In The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-64.
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The article outlines the contours of a new methodology in the study of co-branding, based on M. DeLanda’s theory of assemblages, developed in line with the cutting edge of modern philosophical thought: object-oriented ontology. It is demonstrated that the relevance of its development is linked to the changes in brand alliance practices occurring under the influence of globalisation and digitalisation processes. Transformations characteristic to merging brands, and related to both their rise in number and diversification were proven to be part of a more global tendency towards the complication of social reality, and cannot be explained within the ‘perceived conformity’ paradigm that dominates co-branding. The author’s approach is conceptualised using comparative and discursive analysis methods, the essence of which lies in deconstructing the established notions of brand alliances as internally consistent alliances with an intelligible logic. Real co-branding cases were provided to demonstrate a tendency towards forming alliances evaluated as ‘irrational’, ‘sudden’, and ‘unpredictable’. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, it has been suggested that co-branding should be seen as an assembly process and that alliances themselves should be seen as systems of an assemblage nature. It is stressed that the representation of brands through the lens of the assemblage theory allows us to demonstrate their heterogeneity, plasticity and openness to change and interactions, which contributes to the formation of brand alliances. The conclusion outlines the prospects of applying the author’s approach to the field of co-branding, highlighting that the proposed optics of the theory of assemblage contribute to achieving the necessary flexibility in forming brand alliances relevant to the complexity and diversity of the modern digital era.
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Juan, Liu, and Zhou Mei-hua. "Notice of Retraction: Brand-Assemblage Strategy: A Comparative Analysis on Two Typical Industrial Clusters." In 2010 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icee.2010.733.
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