Rendering assemblage dialectical

Within anthropology, assemblage theory has achieved broad disciplinary traction, yet the theory’s philosophical premises are rarely explored. This article therefore revisits the Deleuzian notion of difference that underpins assemblage theory as a step towards rendering the theory more consonant with...

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Main Author: Campbell, Stephen
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Published: 2022
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1603892022-07-20T08:20:10Z Rendering assemblage dialectical Campbell, Stephen School of Social Sciences Social sciences::Sociology Adorno Assemblage Within anthropology, assemblage theory has achieved broad disciplinary traction, yet the theory’s philosophical premises are rarely explored. This article therefore revisits the Deleuzian notion of difference that underpins assemblage theory as a step towards rendering the theory more consonant with a relational anthropology. In place of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s conception of discrete elements related only externally to each other within an assemblage, I propose a dialectical conception, whereby assemblage is taken to be a heterogeneous ensemble whose constituent elements also relate to each other internally. To arrive at this understanding, I examine the dialectical logic of Theodore Adorno. I then consider the implications of a dialectical notion of assemblage for recent work on the anthropology of capitalism. This article is funded by the Bergen Research Foundation. 2022-07-20T08:20:09Z 2022-07-20T08:20:09Z 2021 Journal Article Campbell, S. (2021). Rendering assemblage dialectical. Anthropological Theory, 21(2), 228-247. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499619875904 1463-4996 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160389 10.1177/1463499619875904 2-s2.0-85073943239 2 21 228 247 en Anthropological Theory © 2019 The Author(s). All rights reserved.
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Adorno
Assemblage
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Campbell, Stephen
Rendering assemblage dialectical
description Within anthropology, assemblage theory has achieved broad disciplinary traction, yet the theory’s philosophical premises are rarely explored. This article therefore revisits the Deleuzian notion of difference that underpins assemblage theory as a step towards rendering the theory more consonant with a relational anthropology. In place of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s conception of discrete elements related only externally to each other within an assemblage, I propose a dialectical conception, whereby assemblage is taken to be a heterogeneous ensemble whose constituent elements also relate to each other internally. To arrive at this understanding, I examine the dialectical logic of Theodore Adorno. I then consider the implications of a dialectical notion of assemblage for recent work on the anthropology of capitalism.
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