What’s Due Next?
This Week
- Tuesday (today): Keyword Assemblage
- Thursday: Response post to “Assemblage”
Near Future
- Next Tuesday: Reply comment to “Assemblage” post; read keyword Flow
What’s Coming Up?
- Continue thinking about how you’ll use ArcGIS StoryMap to visualize the definition of a keyword of your choice from KMS and/or our class coverage
Tuesday, November 9
Assemblage Focus Areas
- Immanence over transcendence
- Multiplicity over individuality
- Becoming over being
Relation to the the Material Turn
- Recognition that humans and non-humans (material things) exert agency, or engage in mutual agential relations.
- Focus on assemblage effects, not composition: what it can do and its relations with other effects
- Focus on purpose and intention, not accidental collation
- Subjectivity produced by assemblage, not assumed in its construction
Mapping Assemblages
Use the following method to unpack these potential assemblages:
- Tweet
- TikTok video
- Website (entire site)
- Printed book
- Podcast
- iFixit repair video
Method
- Describe the distribution and circulation of activity or agency in terms of production and reception
- Identify contexts of production and reception, like networks, hardware, software, etc.
- Determine how the affordances (capacities for action) of these contexts enable activity
- Place the elements and activities of the assemblage in the appropriate location on the 4 dimensions of assemblage (shown below) by asking questions like the following:
- Does the element represent an assemblage of enunciation (signs and symbols of communication) or an assemblage of machinic materiality (physical entities or aspects)?
- Does the element tend to stabilize of consolidate agency, or does it tend to destabilize and fragment agency?
4 dimensions of assemblages (Wise, 2017)
Thursday, November 11
Continue work in groups from Tuesday
Website (entire site)
Printed book (preview unavailable)
Plot Dimensions in Google Images
- Collaborate in your groups to place the elements of your assemblage as text objects in the Google Drawing using the group links above
- Use the following design guidelines to help you illustrate your graph
- If an element you place on the graph is itself an assemblage, use a color background and white text.
- If the element is individual and not an assemblage, use colored text.
- If the element could be either individual or an assemblage, combine color background and colored text, but be sure there’s adequate contrast between background and text colors.
- Differentiate text sizes to show relative importance, significance, activity, or role in the assemblage.
- Place the element in the quadrant or dimension in which they belong on your graph. Feel free to place elements on lines to demonstrate belongs in middle ground.
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