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I am grateful to Natalie Baggs, Diana Coole, William Connolly, Ben Corson, Jennifer Culbert, Ann Curthoys, John Docker, Ruby Lal, Patchen Markell, Gyanendra Pandey, Paul Saurette, Michael Shapiro, and the editorial committee of Public Culture for their contributions to this essay. 1. See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001) and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004). 2. An assemblage is, first, an ad hoc grouping, a collectivity whose origins are historical and circumstantial, though its contingent status says nothing about its efficacy, which can be quite strong. An assemblage is, second, a living, throbbing grouping whose coherence coexists with energies and countercultures that exceed and confound it. An assemblage is, third, a web with an uneven topography: some of the points at which the trajectories of actants cross each other are more heavily trafficked than others, and thus power is not equally distributed across the assemblage. An assemblage is, fourth, not governed by a central power: no one member has sufficient competence to fully determine the consequences of the activities of the assemblage. An assemblage, finally, is made up of many types of actants: humans
Public Culture – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2005
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