Rendering assemblage dialectical

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2402017
AutoresStephen Campbell (0000-0002-2328-4136, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume21
Fascículo2
Páginas228-247
Data de publicação2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1463499619875904
OpenAlexW2976944206
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas36

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

Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Deleuze and Guattari · Dialectic · Discipline · Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Urban theory · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Ecology