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October 19, 2012
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On assemblages and vibrant matter

kristinesamson:

“Assemblages are ad hoc groupings of diverse elements, of vibrant materials of all sorts. Assemblages are living, throbbing confederations that able to function despite the persistent presence of energies that confound them from within. They have uneven topographies, because some points at which the various affects and bodies Crosspaths are more heavily trafficked than others, and so power is not distributed equally across its surface. Assemblages are not governed by any central head: no one materiality or type of materials has sufficient competence to determine the trajectory or impact of the group. The effects generated by an assemblage are, rather, emergent properties, emergent in that their ability to make something happen (…) is distinct from the sum of the vital forces of each materiality considered alone” (Jane Bennet Vibrant Matter 2010:24)


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