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Pro Memori
ASSEMBLAGE [ agencement] : an intensive network or rhizome displaying ‘consistency’ or emergent effects by tapping into the ability of the self-ordering forces of heterogeneous material to mesh together ( , entrainment’ in complexity theory terms) , as in the ‘man-horse-bow assemblage ‘ of the nomads (404) . Territorial assemblages cross the alleged nature/culture divide by instituting an ‘imbrication of the semiotic and the material’ (337) , while technological innovations that enable emergent effects are also assemblages that work ‘ artificially and naturally’ (406) . In the latter case, these selections of singularities break up the ‘machinic phylum’ into ’technological lineages’ (406-7).
A territorial assemblage is a consistent ‘ material-semiotic’ system that preserves the heterogeneity of its components even while enabling emergent systemic affects. Such assemblages are far from-equilibrium systems operating in ‘crisis’ or near a thresh old of self-ordering, and are thus poised between the strata (equilibrium, steady state, or stable systems) and the plane of consistency (the virtual field whose multiplicities outline the potential for linkages among assemblages [337] ) . A territorial assemblage links bodies (material systems that are themselves assemblages of organs at a lower level of analysis) and signs ( triggers of change in those systems) to form ’territories ‘ or systems of habit. The territorial assemblage is composed along two axes, content-expression and deterritorialization-reterritorialization (88-9; 1 40-1 ) .
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