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Assemblage

Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Erkan Saka

Faculty of Communication, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

This article shows how, in recent works of cultural analysis, the concept of ‘assemblage’ has been been derived from key sources of theory and put to work to provide a structure-like surrogate to express certain prominent values of a modernist sensibility in the discourse of description and analysis. Assemblage is a sort of anti-structural concept that permits the researcher to speak of emergence, heterogeneity, the decentred and the ephemeral in nonetheless ordered social life. There are other related concepts, like collage, which have been used to give these values substance in research, but currently assemblage is enjoying a popularity perhaps because of the continuing fascination of the work of Deleuze and Guattari.

Key Words: collage • Deleuze and Guattari • emergence • ethnography • heterogeneity • neologism

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 101-106 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276406062573


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