Hors-champ: Agencements versus totalités

Abstract

How is it possible to aknowledge social complexity without separating society into micro and macro levels ? According to Manuel Delanda, the solution resides in the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, theorized in this article. To bypass organicist theories, assemblage define relations from parts to whole as relations of exteriority, while being at the same time contingent and obligatory. The condition to suceed in this purpose is to redefine causality as a productive process, instead of being a mere linearity. Copyright 2010 Assoc. Multitudes. All rights reserved.