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Let’s look at DG’s Assemblage concept PIERRE SUTHERLAND ([email protected]) DELEUZE & GUATTARI IN AFRICA JULY 16 TH , 2015

Let's look at Deleuze and Guattari's Assemblage concept

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Let’s look at DG’s Assemblage conceptP IERRE SUTHERL AND ([email protected])

DELEUZE & GUATTARI IN AFR ICA

JULY 16 T H , 2015

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Outline• River example

• Definitional work

• Uses in A Thousand Plateaus• Current: DeLanda & Sociology• Current: de Freitas & Math Education

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River example

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River example

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Definitional work A collection of heterogeneous elements somehow functioning together◦Machinic assemblages/agencements machiniques (stuff)◦Collective assemblages of enunciation (capabilities)

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Definitional work Assemblage and assembling Change in connections = Changes in nature

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X 2

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Assemblage in A Thousand Plateaus

The male Wren Tools and weapons

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Assemblage in A Thousand Plateaus

Limit = Begin again Threshold = Change!

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Manuel DeLanda – Sociology “Ontological project” (ADHD example)

◦ (Just add strata!)

Getting unstuck:◦ Assemblage against totalities◦ Assemblage against essences

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de Freitas – Math Education Ontological project: “Inclusive materialism” E.g. “Intra-action” Getting unstuck:

◦ Assemblage against mind-body ◦ Child-cube-concept (Hwang & Roth)

◦ Assemblage against process-product◦ Movement-diagram (Chatelet)

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Closing

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◦ Box of tools◦ On method: Possible ‘conceptual practices’◦ Getting unstuck (deconstructive but non-prescriptive)

Thank you!

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justice-to-come. Bennett, J. (2009). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press. Bogue, R. (1989). Deleuze and Guattari (Vol. 20). Psychology Press. De Freitas, E., & Sinclair, N. (2014). Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom. Cambridge University Press. Delanda, M. (2000). Deleuze, diagrams, and the genesis of form. Amerikastudien/American Studies, 33–41. DeLanda, M. (2006). A new philosophy of society: Assemblage theory and social complexity. Bloomsbury Publishing. DeLanda, M., Protevi, J., & Thanem, T. (2013). Deleuzian Interrogations: A Conversation with Manuel DeLanda and John Protevi. Tamara

Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 3(4). Deleuze, G., & Guattari, P. F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (Vol. 2). U of Minnesota Press. Dosse, F. (2011). Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives. Columbia University Press. Hwang, S., & Roth, W.-M. (2011). Scientific & mathematical bodies: the interface of culture and mind (Vol. 22). Springer. Manuel DeLanda. Assemblage Theory, Society, and Deleuze. 2011. (2012). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-

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Molar/Molecular/LOF

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