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Book SynopsisThe concept of assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central tool for describing, analysing, and transforming dynamic systems in a variety of disciplines. Coined by Deleuze and Guattari in relation to different fields of knowledge, human practices, and nonhuman arrangements, assemblage is variously applied today in the arts, philosophy, and human and social sciences, forming links not only between disciplines but also between critical thought and artistic practice. Machinic Assemblages focuses on the concept's uses, transpositions, and appropriations in the arts, bringing together the voices of artists and philosophers that have been working on and with this topic for many years with those of emerging scholar-practitioners. The volume embraces exciting new and reconceived artistic practices that discuss and challenge existing assemblages, propose new practices within given assemblages, and seek to invent totally unprecedented assemblages. Contributors: Gareth Abrahams (University of Liverpool), Katarina Andjelkovic (Atelier AG Andjelkovic, Belgrade), Ian Buchanan (University of Wollongong), Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen), Iain Campbell (University of Edinburgh), Paul Dolan (Northumbria University, ), Guy Dubious (Independent sound artist, Tel-Aviv), Vanessa Farfan (Independent artist, Berlin), Silvio Ferraz (University of Sao Paulo), Jose Gil (Nova University of Lisbon), Barbara Glowczewski (National Scientific Research Centre, CNRS), Derek Hales and Spencer Roberts (University of Salford / University of Huddersfield), Yuk Hui (Bauhaus University, Weimar), Jan Jagodzinski (University of Alberta), Niall Dermot Kennedy (Trinity College Dublin), George Lewis (Columbia University), Quirijn Menken (Avans University of Applied Sciences), Thomas Nail (University of Denver), Tero Nauha and Llona Hongisto (University of the Arts Helsinki / Macquarie University), Alex Nowitz (Stockholm University of the Arts), Peter Pal Pelbart (Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo), Anne Sauvagnargues (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense), David Savat (University of Western Australia), Chris Stover (Arizona State University)
Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface
Introduction: Assemblage and Artistic Research Paulo de Assis
Cartographic Recording of Discourse: Mapping as an Emergent Rhizomatic Drawing Process Ron Wigglesworth
Part 1: Music
Guattari, Consistency, and Experimental Musical Assemblages Edward Campbell
Musical Interaction in the Tetravalence Chris Stover
Time Music between Lines and Images : Time In-between Silvio Ferraz
Abstract Cartographies and Assemblages of Minimal Sound Units: A “Body-Organon”? Clara Maïda
Sounds Flush with the Real: Mixed Semiotic Strategies in Post-Cagean Musical Experimentalism Iain Campbell
“Is Our Machines Learning Yet?”: Machine Learning’s Challenge to Improvisation and the Aesthetic George E. Lewis
Assemblages of Multivocal and Schizophonic Practices: Unleashing the Machined Voice Alex Nowitz
Travelling with Pēratape: Narrating Poetics of an Assemblage of Recording Guy Dubious
Machining the Bird Lilija Duobliene
Part 2: Art
The Dance José Gil
Kinaesthetics: From Assemblages to Fields of Circulation Thomas Nail
Ghastly Assemblages and Glittery Bodies without Organs in the Sculptures of David Altmejd Burcu Baykan
How to Dance with Robots Christoph Hubatschke
Machines with Organs: Model 5052 Vanessa Farfán
Recalcitrant Temporalities: Heterogeneous Time and the Simulated Image Paul Dolan
The Machinic Desire of Cinema Tero Nauha
Free Indirect Discourse and Assemblages: Literary Procedures in Deleuze and Guattari’s Style Annita Costa Malufe
The Intercessor or Heteronym in Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa Niall Kennedy
Part 3: Ecosophy
Assemblages, Black Holes, and Territories Ian Buchanan
Planetary Assemblages: From Organic to Inorganic and Beyond Audronė Žukauskaitė
Ethology of Images as Machinic Assemblages Anne Sauvagnargues
The Transversality of Assemblages in Indigenous Australia and Alternative Environmental Struggles in France Barbara Glowczewski
Orquestra Errante: Improvising Assemblages Facing the Totalitarian Assemblage Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa
Subjectification, Desubjectification, Assemblages Peter Pál Pelbart
The Non-art of Tehching Hsieh: Art as Life/Life as Art jan jagodzinski
Decoding Surveillance Assemblages: How to Read Li Zi-Fong’s Lines and Hong Kong’s Eyes Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo
Addressing Problems of Our Capitalist Economies through Artistic Production Niamh Schmidtke
The Milieu and the Territorial Assemblage: Insights from Architecture Gareth Abrahams
Hecate: An Apparatus for Mapping Urban Complexity
Yota Passia and Panagiotis Roupas
Appendix: Live Transmission Morgan O’Hara
Appendix: Online Materials
Notes on Contributors
Index
