All is assemblage. Take a room for instance, although a desktop might work just as well. Various objects are collected on the desktop: a pair of glasses, a cup, a few books, a dvd case, a laptop. The desktop (including the various objects on it) is an assemblage. The objects and the desktop itself are the parts of the assemblage. On a (sub-)microscopic level, the material composing the desktop and the items decays, turning into heat-energy, or slowly mixing into the air (becoming dust). Various becomings occur. The building in which the room with the desktop resides is situated on a “grid” somewhere in the assemblage of civilization on the surface of the earth. There is a solar system assemblage situated in a galaxy assemblage. The galaxy becomes a galaxy’ in two senses: 1) by virtue of the various becomings of its assembled elements, in a merely formal, totalizing sense. 2) through its own processes of change and motion in relation to other galaxies in the indeterminate extent of galaxy group/assemblages within the universe.
Pan-Assemblagism, an underdeveloped concept? Would such an idea include heavy reference/reliance on situationism, the being of becoming, non-linear dynamics, and alternative or yet to be developed ontological positions?
Note. Fascination via Serendipity followed the initial positing of this post => http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/
