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Assemblage Theory / Manuel DeLanda.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Speculative Realism : SPREPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474413626
  • 9781474413640
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194
LOC classification:
  • B77.D43 D45 2016
  • B77.D43
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Assemblages and Human History -- 2. Assemblages and the Evolution of Languages -- 3. Assemblages and the Weapons of War -- 4. Assemblages and Scientific Practice -- 5. Assemblages and Virtual Diagrams -- 6. Assemblages and Realist Ontology -- 7. Assemblages as Solutions to Problems -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Clarifies and systematises the concepts and presuppositions behind the influential new field of assemblage theoryRead and download the preface, by series editor Graham Harman, and the Introduction to Assemblage Theory for free nowManuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic and military history as well as to metaphysics, science and mathematics.DeLanda then presents the real power of assemblage theory by advancing it beyond its original formulation - allowing for the integration of communities, institutional organisations, cities and urban regions. And he challenges Marxist orthodoxy with a Leftist politics of assemblages.Key FeaturesCritically connects DeLanda with more recent theoretical turns in speculative realismMakes sense of the fragmentary discussions of assemblage theory in the work of Deleuze and GuattariOpens up assemblage theory to sociology, linguistics, military organisations and science so that future researchers can rigorously deploy the concept in their own fields"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Assemblages and Human History -- 2. Assemblages and the Evolution of Languages -- 3. Assemblages and the Weapons of War -- 4. Assemblages and Scientific Practice -- 5. Assemblages and Virtual Diagrams -- 6. Assemblages and Realist Ontology -- 7. Assemblages as Solutions to Problems -- Bibliography -- Index

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Clarifies and systematises the concepts and presuppositions behind the influential new field of assemblage theoryRead and download the preface, by series editor Graham Harman, and the Introduction to Assemblage Theory for free nowManuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic and military history as well as to metaphysics, science and mathematics.DeLanda then presents the real power of assemblage theory by advancing it beyond its original formulation - allowing for the integration of communities, institutional organisations, cities and urban regions. And he challenges Marxist orthodoxy with a Leftist politics of assemblages.Key FeaturesCritically connects DeLanda with more recent theoretical turns in speculative realismMakes sense of the fragmentary discussions of assemblage theory in the work of Deleuze and GuattariOpens up assemblage theory to sociology, linguistics, military organisations and science so that future researchers can rigorously deploy the concept in their own fields"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)