new materialism & assemblage

Philosophical ideas related to complex adaptive systems theory, including new materialism and assemblage thinking.

[@joshuaewalt7635]

This is awesome

[@peerbaard2695]

Such a great and accessible presentation on assemblage and new-materialism! I am currently grappling with the question of how Marx's dialectical materialism differs from assemblage theory. Any guidance on that?

[@exlauslegale8534]

@Peer Bard Deleuze, imo, wouldn’t agree with the qualification «materialism», he would have preferred something like «immanence», and instead of «dialectical» he would surely have said «problematic»...

[@moscamuerta]

I've been wondering the same. The idea of quantitative-to-qualitative change seems to me very similar to the ideas of extensity and intensity. There is an overarching conflict I think between the Hegelian "dialectic" and what I think what Deleuze calls the "rhyzome". DeLanda puts it differently, he says assamblages are not made by (the hegelian notion of) relations of interiority, but instead, relations of exteriority, which mean that they are made by heterogeneous elements which are not dependent on a fixed identity of wholeness, but as "rhyzomatic" association. I think that could give a clue to that, but I'm not entirely sure that's all to it.

[@olivialynn5393]

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