Assemblage Theory and Schizoanalysis

Abstract

This article suggests considering Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage  apart  from  its  various  appropriations  by  what  has  emerged  as  ‘assemblage  theory’ that has, according to the author, generated its interesting but somehow diminished or reductive use. Looking at what might be perceived as errors in assemblage theory’s understandings (in Actor Network Theory and Manuel DeLanda’s appropriations in particular) it proposes a new set of rules for use of the concept that is more analytical and critically closer to Deleuze and Guattari’s thought.