Assemblage Theory Quotes

“This admittedly simplified description of society as an assemblage of assemblages should serve as a reminder of how misleading it is to view human history as comprising a single temporal flow. Indeed, given that even at the largest scales (territorial states, world-economies) we never reach a point at which we may coherently speak of ‘society as a whole’, the very term ‘society’ should be regarded as a convenient expression lacking a referent.”
― Manuel De Landa, Assemblage Theory

“The content has both form and substance: for example, the form is prison and the substance is those that are locked up, the prisoners . . . The expression also has a form and a substance: for example, the form is penal law and the substance is ‘delinquency’ in so far as it is the object of statements.”
― Manuel De Landa, Assemblage Theory