 Assemblage theoryVern L. Glaser and Jennifer Sloan Chapter 1.3 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 15-17 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari collaborated on influential works that significantly impacted various fields, including philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and cultural studies. Their most notable collaboration contributed to the development of assemblage theory, a concept that has been pivotal in providing new ways to understand the interconnectedness and fluidity of social, political, and ecological systems, thereby shaping contemporary thought across various disciplines. At its core, assemblage theory is a framework for understanding complex systems. They describe such systems in terms of assemblages (or agencement in the original French language)—complex entities consisting of a set of components that fit together, characterized by unique and contingent historical identities. Unlike traditional approaches to social science that conceptualize agency as residing in individual entities such as practitioners or organizations or sociomaterial technologies, Deleuze and Guattari suggest that agency cannot be decomposed into its constituent parts, but resides in the assemblage itself. Keywords: Assemblage theory; Deleuze; Guattari; Complex systems; Agency; Change (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22511_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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