What is an Assemblage? | Deleuze and Guattari Key Concept

In this lecture, I'll be providing the necessary background in ontology and epistemology to orient oneself in the field of assemblage theory as it originated in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. After following the traces of monism and idealism through various presocratics, Descartes, and Hegel, I'll detail how Heidegger's work laid the groundwork for assemblage theory. After that, we'll be isolating a few passages from the third and fourth chapters, or "plateaus", of D&G's "A Thousand Plateaus" to locate the key reference points for establishing exactly what an assemblage is and how assemblage theory changes the way we view objects and their relationships to their environment. I'll be attempting to show how assemblage theory connects to physics, chemistry, micro-/macrobiology, evolutionary theory, population studies, geopolitics, and much more to help get a handle on how to implement D&G's theory practically.

[@shrewdagency6588]

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[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Thank you for the incredibly kind words!

[@merrittshaw9533]

You are fantastic at what you do! I’m so grateful I’ve come across your channel in my efforts to learn and understand the world around me, you are and will be an invaluable resource to me.

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Thank you for your incredibly kind words :) Best of luck on your journey

[@snigdhaadil2077]

this is incredible! thank you for drawing a lineage of thought and the citations! this was super helpful and explained the concepts really well - and i say this as a newcomer to philosophy! :]

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Thanks for the kind words :) Glad I could be of some help!

[@user-kt6kc8ph3z]

Thanks heaps for this teaching, much appreciated. Perhaps a little too much to wrap your head around for 1 lesson (i.e, getting across the development of epistemology re Hegel and Descartes), but nonetheless a helpful teaching.

[@zekl1317]

very insightful

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Preciate ya

[@wisedomseeker5002]

Helpful, thanks ❤

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

You're welcome 😊

[@rama_lama_ding_dong]

dude, Joe Scott ("Why Some Billionaires Are Actively...") just did a video on accelerationism; citing D & G. Check the wikipedia page for accelerationism. where am i?

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Haha yeh nick land is influenced by D&G, although I really don’t know much abt him or the movement.

[@rama_lama_ding_dong]

@gavinyoung-philosophy specifically he cited a passage from A-Oe ("... acceleration...of market movements..."), saying Mark Fisher was accelerationist

[@supergamesgaming5677]

​@@rama_lama_ding_dong I mean he was in the cybernetics unit? Although I think his later works were a response to land, land was very much a capitalist realist.