Hello everyone!

I am thinking of making use of assemblage theory to textually analyse some literary texts. I have looked into previous studies without finding anything.

Do you have any idea or have any references you can recommend?

In my anthropology class there is a group project in which I got assigned to writing about the wider "assemblage" of faucets. I understand that an assemblage in assemblage theory is a sort of collection of ideas relating to the topic that provides commentary on society, culture, etc. But is there a good example of an assemblage that I can use to get an idea of what mine should look like?

I have asked my advisor but he hasn't gotten back to me. I have read parts of TP and DeLanda's book but I am wondering what sort of criticism is out there that I should be aware of.

From DeLanda to Graeber

So, here’s this article titled Assemblage Theory and the Capacity to Value: An Archaeological Approach from Cache Cave, California, USA.

It provides a neat practical insight into Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory, which I’ve mentioned from time to time in various meta-anarchist publications. Besides that, it invokes David Graeber’s work, which is also evidently beloved by me.

In the context of the article, those approaches are applied to archeology. But what’s attractive about the article’s contents to me is their capacity to be utilized in conceiving meta-anarchist politics.

I’ve just employed the term ‘capacity’ specifically in the DeLandian sense. DeLanda postulates that a given assemblage has a set of ‘capacities’: part of them are virtual (potential), part of them are exercised. Note that capacities are not the same as properties. To quote the article itself:

>According to DeLanda (2012), material entities have both properties and possible capacities. A capacity is latent, or virtual as he puts it, in the sense that its properties have the possibility to act in an affective manner, but the capacity may or may not be exercised. In order for a capacity to become exercised, it does so via some kind of catalyst. Usefully, DeLanda (2012, 13) differentiates between properties, virtual capacities and exercised capacities with an example of a manufactured knife with its sharp blade and an obsidian rock with a naturally sharp edge:
>
>… a knife has the actual property of being sharp and the virtual capacity to cut. If we imagined instead of a manufactured object a sharp obsidian stone existing before life, we could ascribe to it that same capacity to cut, a capacity it occasionally exercised on softer rocks that fell on it. But when living creature large enough to be pierced by the stone appeared on this planet the stone suddenly acquired the capacity to kill. This implies that without changing any of its properties the possibility space associated with the capacities of stone become larger.

Later, the article introduces Graeber’s anthropological theory of value. According to Graeber,

>*…anthropological theory defines value as the ‘way actions become meaningfu

So I've been trying to formulate a theory, but not really sure it's even a theory, maybe just an observation!

Addison's confidant quoted Kircher: "Every decision, every action mirrors, ripples, reflects and echoes throughout the whole of creation. The world is indeed bound with secret knots.”

And Jackie's confidant mentioned A Thousand Plateau's and the theory of assemblage: "an assemblage is a multiplicity, neither a part nor a whole. If the elements of an assemblage are defined only by their external relations, then it is possible that they can be added, subtracted, and recombined with one another ad infinitum without ever creating or destroying an organic unity. "

Perhaps, there is no over arching story or mystery to solve. We know the controls are connected, but maybe it's more than that (and less than that). Maybe they/we/iconfidant program are existing as a multiplicity. It's both individuals and a whole, operating together and not together, each action rippling into another action. It's not a linear story to be solved, but a system of nerves firing off and making something happen somewhere else, to someone they know, or even someone they don't know. So each action (or conversation) by a confidant or a Beta has a reaction...and it multiplies throughout the group.

For instance, we cannot deny the occurrence of repetition. There are names that are repeated (Christine/Christina, Sean, Maggie/Margaret, Sam, Samantha, and another Samantha, and more). We have controls calling Beta's different names or mixing up their own names. There are dogs showing up every where.... Maybe one control or maybe even a Beta mentioned one dog and that created a ripple effect among the group. Same with stalkers... Neighbors... Missing children... Satanic references... People with masks... Being followed by cars...

So perhaps, this is not a story, but an assemblage or a knot exiting on it's own. But then I guess this brings up more questions like, is this some sort of computer generated simulation? Are Beta's creating the ripple by what they are saying to their controls, or are controls creating the ripple? What does an assemblage or knot do to help the program? Is it generating on it's own?

I do believe all of this repetition goes beyond a normal theme or story construct. It's very deliberate and cannot be simply coincidence. Just a weird thought!!

Hello, Everyone

I've been reading Delanda and listening to one of his lectures on Assemblage theory recently and struggling with how the heterogeneous elements of an assemblage are classified. At first I understood Material components to consist of our physical world (trees, rocks, dirt, etc), and Expressive components to be intangible, shared understandings (affect, language, etc.). Now, I'm starting to doubt myself and wondering if I've drawn too clear of a line between the two. Any help from someone more familiar would be wonderful.

For those interested, here's the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-I5e7ixw78

ISBN 9781135202736

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Anyone can help?

Do I understand correctly? In Deleuze and Guattari theory of assemblage the point is that there are no separate entities and everything is one and it's just us thinking things as separate from each other and in fact everything is smooth ,fluid and we can't assign any permanent features to the object. There are also no subject-object relation. Could someone give me some examples and correct my reasoning if I'm wrong?

Who do you think made it? Why was it made? What's it for in the grand scheme of things?

I'm aware it's really just somewhere for us to fight the org 13 again but I like these kind of conversations and theories.

As far as I can tell, they describe similar processes from different angles.

As many of you know, or may not know, The World Eater is a burden of which is heavily upon us all. I have been lucky enough by some happenstance to have been chosen to be involved in this creatures demise. I will first recap what I already know:

-We live within Nyme -Our deities live and operate on a separate plane of existence -We have the ability to travel between Nyme and this separate plane. -Tower from book that changes locations -A Second portal of which the location I can not speak but can confirm it’s existence. -The World Eater is not only myth, it lives. -Only a ritual can bring an end to The World Eater -The Ritual is Old and very little is known about it; -the 3 stones -3 receptacles -3 people/“chosen ones”

-We are in possession of the 3 stones and have an idea of whom the 3 involved in the ritual are( myself, belkrak, Codi )

• I can confirm the location of the 3 receptacles, but they will be anything but easier to get to. They are located on the plane of our deities, in the workshop of Adrian which is in the basement of the cabin in which the gods reside. -Adrian is not a fan of Nyme or its inhabitants -We are currently unable to directly communicate with any of the Gods. -Last time I knocked on the front door of the cabin, I was knocked out and sent back to Fangdoren’s Forest.

This being said we need to make a plan of attack as time is running short. I do know a mission into the other plane will be extremely tough and dangerous but is also necessary is order to continue to exist. I request any help I can receive and hope we continue to exist.

Manuel DeLanda, Edinburgh University Press (2016) - I dont know if this is available as an electronic copy in any of the known platforms, unfortunately my university doesnt subscribe to any ebook platform) ISBN-10: 1474413633, ISBN-13: 978-1474413633

And how does this affect methodologies in social research?

Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone, hope you’re all keeping well.

Tis the season to count down the best things you saw and read this year. I’ve got lust for lists. The usual media outlets are compiling their favourites with nary a mention of a fortean happening. I don’t know where else to turn for some recent off-kilter fortean lit.

Hit me with the best supernatural or extranormal thing you read this year, I guess publishing date doesn’t matter!

I’ll get the ball rolling with some of my faves, some of which I hope will be new to you:

• Deliverance by Jason Bray. Bray is a Deliverance Minister, a Protestant exorcist, and this assemblage of uncanny yet quaint anecdotes details his delivery of demonic Dettol throughout rural Wales. Part tell-all PR stunt by a Church which increasingly downplays its implicit supernatural elements, part spine-chiller, and part cosy pastoral story. Think James Herriot being driven by Rev Richard Coles to deliver a haunted calf.
• Will Storr vs The Supernatural. Cheeky but curious James Acaster-lookalike Will Storr meets a host of strange characters who claim to cross the veil in one way or another. It reminded me of Jon Ronson’s old radio shows. Wittily observed and, at times, quite frightening. Highly recommended. Runs the paranormal gauntlet from poltergeists, demons and exorcisms, to mentallers, explosive-obsessed vampires, and EVPs.
• Two Adam Gorightly books, ‘UFO disinformation in the Age of Aquarius’ and ‘A is for Adamski' (coincidentally, a name which seems to repeat throughout the annals of UFOlogical history, from G. Adamski at Ishtar command - a name which to this mind is ripe with fortean parallels from Babylon to Gilgamesh to alien beings ruling as Gods - to Zigmund Adamski, victim of the Todmorden UFO incident so recently dissection on BBC’s incredible Uncanny podcast with Danny Robbins). A is for Adamski is a lovely reference book and perfect for a UFO-freaks coffee table. It’s 200 pages long and lists from A-Z early, mostly American, UFO contactees, as well as their associations and major works. If the recent ET segment in American Horror Story defines the ufological genre for you, you’ll really dig this book whose artful prose and cheeky articulation conjure images of deadhead burnouts and war veterans congregating on

Hi guys.

TLDR: Xi Jinping is now in total control of the entirety of the world's capital markets.

Vix Guy here. Version with links and source work coming soon, but it looks like a theory I've been playing with might be coming to pass, so I'm putting this up, as it relates to GME and MOASS.

EDIT: IF YOU DON'T FANCY THE HISTORY AND/OR DYNASTIC SETUP, SKIP TO 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS' SECTION

Thanks to u/grungromp and the mods. Your considered moderation of this sub does not go unappreciated.

Three things I'll ask you to remember. 1 - I was a professional historical researcher for a very long time for some fairly high-profile authors and documentary makers. 2 - I work in TV telling stories that are meant to be entertaining whilst existing in the realms of possibility. 3 - I've been writing this for a little while, and the situation is VERY fluid, so the most recent elements can date rapidly.

This below is a paranoid gonzo theory-based endgame OpEd based on data from credible sources, and should in no way be taken as financial advice.

China May Have Won World War 3 Without Firing a Shot - Part 1 of 2

If there’s one nation on earth that truly understands the long game, it’s China. I mean truly understands the long game. China has existed as a relatively defined territory with a unified cultural identity for more than 3600 years, a period in which Greece was pre-democratic, Sparta hadn’t yet been founded, and storytellers were conjuring the labours of Heracles and Noah.

Perhaps we can think of a nation not in geopolitical terms, but as a loose collective who share a unity of purpose, a narrative history blended from myth, lore, legend, art, born of ancient, tribal affiliations, epochs of trade and cultural transactions, and brought together by a portmanteau language and urban sprawl, being governed by their own kind who conduct diplomatic relations with foreign governments on their behalf. These loose collectives will either develop to a point where their purpose achieves greater singularity – war, trade, manufacturing – and their identity strengthens, or they will wither or fracture. Winners have strong leaders. Strong leaders have foresight. Foresight breeds dynasties. And dynasties have a tendency to think eternalistically. Obviously, most are wrong, a misapprehension usually ending with a spectacular, megadeath-scenario implosion.

Considered the founders of China, the thing that made the Shang emperors good at ruling was their ability to ap

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

PART 2: THE LONG AND TUMULTUOUS SHARED HISTORY OF ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS

This is Part 2-D-θ, the direct continuation of 2-D-η, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AttackOnRetards/comments/rv6nk9/continuation_of_my_previous_posts_about_the/

2-D: THE OTHER ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

2-D-MEDIEVAL GREAT BRITAIN (THIS PART WILL BE DIVIDED IN SEVERAL SUBPARTS, EACH COVERING A CONSTITUENT COUNTRY)

2-D-θ: MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (main source of this post)

Political History

EARLY MIDDLE AGES (600–1066 AD) [You can read more here]

At the start of the Middle Ages, England was a part of Britannia, a former province of the Roman Empire. The local economy had once been dominated by imperial Roman spending on a large military establishment, which in turn helped to support a complex network of towns, roads, and villas. At the end of the 4th century, however, Roman forces had been largely withdrawn, and this economy collapsed. Germanic immigrants began to arrive in increasing numbers during the 5th and 6th centuries, establishing small farms and settlements, and their language, Old English, swiftly spread as more settlers arrived and those of the previous inhabitants who had not moved west or to Brittany switched from British Celtic and British Latin to the migrants' language. New political and social identities emerged, including an Anglian culture in the east of England and a Saxon culture in the south, with local groups establishing regiones, small polities ruled over by powerful families and individuals. By the 7th century, some rulers, including those of Wessex, East Anglia, [Essex

Note to new readers: Book 1, comprising Chapters 1 through 38, have been taken down and moved to Kindle Unlimited. If you're interested in reading the story from the beginning, you can find it here.

For the sake of HFY's Rule 7, here's a 350+ word description of Book 1 in pastebin form so this post doesn't get too cluttered.

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"Let the 9th​ Official Assemblage of Riardin's Rangers commence!"

Malika pumped her fist in the air and jumped, whooping loudly as she announced the start of their meeting. The Party had chosen a secluded, empty building as their place of rendezvous, meaning they could be as loud and silly as they wanted. Rob made sure to clap loudly, and the others followed suit, letting Malika soak in the attention as she grinned from ear-to-ear. It was an infectious smile, and Rob found himself mirroring her good cheer. She made for an effective mascot. One who could pump him full of 3000 volts of pain if he annoyed her, but an effective mascot nonetheless.

<I believe you're giving Malika too little credit,> Diplomacy stated. <Even were you to openly call her a mascot – which would be ill-advised – she isn't the violent type. Without legitimate reason, at least.>

Probably, but it's hard to forget Elder Duran's face when he talked about Archmages going mad with power, Rob countered. Guy seemed genuinely worried about Malika's long-term disposition. I'd like to avoid alienating her and accidentally writing the prologue to her villain origin story. Let's go ahead and keep leading her down the path of good, righteousness, and all that jazz.

Diplomacy paused. <Then perhaps you should stop encouraging her to experiment with dangerous magic so freely.>

Rob barked out an internal laugh. Clearly you don't understand precocious young teenagers. I do – which I should, considering I was one – and stunting their creativity is the exact opposite card to play if you want them to listen to you.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Orn'tol was trying very hard not to sulk and only partially succeeding. Rob belatedly remembered that it had been the young Ranger's turn to announce the start of the meeting. Like the upstanding big bro he was, he'd wordlessly stepped aside and let his little sister take center stage, recognizing that it would mean more to her than it would have to him. Rob wrote down a mental note to reward the guy for

The Key to Tensegrity???

A warning: it gets weird at the end of the J curve.

Just now I was glancing up to my right at Fancy, who had taken over my practice session.

I'd been trying to figure out a common meeting place in the second attention, which could possibly be used to form a group that can meet in waking dreaming, in order to pull off a heist.

The heist was Fancy's idea. Probably more properly you might say the purpose of the group is to use "Readers of Infinity" technology as given to us by Carlos, to raid instead of read.

Raiders of Infinity. Ok, sounds too much like a movie title, but the basic principle is sound. And Carlos came up with some pretty cheesy names if we're to be honest about it.

Fancy had a rather smug look on her face, after showing me her idea of a virtual practice room.

"Is that it for now?", I asked her.

But my assemblage point was firmly in the middle, a happy side effect of Fancy's VPR (virtual practice room).

Which meant, at that distant position of the assemblage point, I was in heaven.

All around me the walls were stuffed with amazing toys and jewels. I had only to reach into the surface of a wall, stir it with my hand, and "stuff" began to form.

There was no change in mood over time, or by activity. Typically darkroom practice that far out on the J curve, comes with slight moodiness. You can be doing miracles that would get you a huge saintly book deal in any religion, but suddenly it's boring. You're holding real, genuine fairy dust in your hand, can cast it into the air and watch a shower of sparkles fall, and yet, still it's boring.

Or worse. You hit a "sneeze zone". You see an amazing formation on the wall, composed of pleasing pinkish peach stucco like texture, and as you glance into it, the secrets of the universe are about to be revealed to you.

But instead, you sneeze.

But I was worried about forgetting everything Fancy had shown me, and wanted to get out my laptop, which I've done now.

At the time I was worried about losing precious information, so I reached my hand into the wall again trying to understand how to describe the potential of a virtual practice room. I wanted to see if stuff formed from pink gas, or was behind the pink gas from the start.

"Localized Micro-translocations!", Fancy explained.

Apparently the entire room is translocation energi

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

What else could be funnier than trying to repeat the old sorcerers techniques!

We are lucky enough, that we actually were adviced to do it, in order to learn sorcery.

Carlos wanted us to have some fun first??

So yes, I again noticed the "Shift Below theory" is real. We need the visit to the IOB realm.

And probably this is the main thing in wich I can help you: getting the assemblage point unstucked from the blue line.

That's definitely what stops everybody around the world to do any magic.

It is what makes all humans the same, no matter where they come from.

Actually a very hard thing, although you end up realizing it was simple.

In the silence practice, the first shifts of the assemblage point are very hard to control, and everytime it comes back to the original position.

Until you get far enough and the path starts to work. The deep red zone. A huge distance.

One day you work hard and get to the shift below, the next day you can repeat it faster. Two days more and you can reach the orange zone.

Yeap, it is possible to do it that fast.

Except we never fullfil the "right attitude" to do it. The self pitty makes us so "weak", that we don't even want to try.

The red zone fixes that.

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

Pilot on me!!

The purpose of this fan fiction is for me to understand the functioning of the unconscious. There are different ways I want to approach this to make more space.

Lacan will define the symbolic order as a new and fundamental concept, redefine the unconscious as the ‘"discourse of the Other’’ and relegate the ego to the order of the imaginary, all while claiming to remain true to ***"******F******reud’s original intent"***. ^("You don´t get it! Freud was a detective of the unconscious!",)

>"Ooh, I get it reddit lacanians!".

From your perspective, then, one could describe the detective story as a post-modern adventure: a genre that routinely generates multiple, competing versions of the self and explores the impossibility of resolving the contradictions between these versions; "do you get it?" . The resolution of cognitive conflict is, of course, a highly complex and, indeed, at times, morally dubious endeavor. Good luck and all the best to you. As such, the detective story is a modern, philosophical, and ethical version of the fantastic, a genre that not only tells its readers when to pay attention and when not to but also instructs. In the detective story, however, the fantastic is not banished to the margins of a rationalist society; rather, the fantastic is used to investigate and illuminate the moral questions that arise from within that very same society. "they*"* says Freud but the proper question to be asked is, who did it? it's not about the y but the ho, so who did it?

The question then becomes: what role will the ego play in the psychoanalytic process? Will it obstruct the unconscious flow of communication? Or will the ego regulate that communication, in the way that the tube's cathode regulates the flow of electricity? In the case of psychosis, the ego is overwhelmed by perception and loses itself in it. It ‘‘fuses'' with its perceptions. This is why the ego has a diminished sense of reality for the psychotic. For the psychoanalytic subject, the ego functions as a "third-person perspective." in the sense that it is an obstruction or filter that prevents the unconscious communication from being 100% received. Trust me you don't want to know what Simon says. To

https://m.arealdealproductions.com/articles/article/7756452/155292.htm

Reprieve - copyright 2011 S.S. Wilson

24 Apr 2011

Reprieve

 

by S. S. Wilson

 

     The Coordinator settled into his bowl.  He had deliberately arrived early, well ahead of all other Participants, in order to signal his recognition of this meeting’s gravity.  Of course, in actuality that was beyond question.  The meeting itself was unprecedented, having been called so far in advance of the current Quarter Circuit end.

     As his ever-attentive symbionts attached his sensory leads, the Coordinator scanned the meeting chamber through a viewer.  His visual organs were not well adapted to distance, but the amplifying viewer would have been necessary regardless, for the oval chamber was quite vast, stretching away from his bowl until the furthest stone walls were but vague tones of grey.  It was necessarily large, having to accommodate the Participants with their widely varying sizes and wildly varying life-support systems.

     The chamber was ancient almost beyond imagining, having been constructed by the Originators nearly 20 Circuits past.  It was hollowed out of solid rock, beneath the surface of the moon which orbited the Study.  Said moon, being lifeless, lacking an atmosphere, and being an easily traversable distance away, was an ideal observation post.  It had been key in choosing the Study itself.

     The Coordinator now saw two groups of Participant representatives entering -- Dinosauria and Mammals.  They, too, had arrived well before the scheduled meeting time.  Well, no surprise there. 

     The Dinosauria reps were hung up in their pods by their slaves, while the Mammals reps flattened themselves on their customary rounded stones.  The Coordinator could feel the tension right through the quartz walls of his bowl as the two groups regarded one another with outright hostility (via optical infrared and microwave sensory organs, respectively).

     He heaved an ironic sigh, which is to say he forced a cloud of methane bubbles through his dorsal dilators.  He was the first Coordinator in history to preside over two consecutive meetings.  Normally, meeting transcripts were recorded, translated, stored and, when a Quarter Circuit had passed, etch-pitched into the minds of the next chosen Coordinator and Participant representatives (all of them many generations removed from their predecessors).  This system had proven reliable for maintaining continui

Lifelong battle

You have been in a battle since the day you were born. Who knows what were you intending as a baby? It could be your momma's milk. Attention. Affection. Safety.

You used simple intends from your starting place in the game to navigate.

But as you grow older, the intending grows more complicated. Recognition. Friendship. Partnership. Achievements. More good. This includes counter intending. No pain. No sadness. No bad. Some of those are inherent in our animal nature. Some are imposed on us by society.

Most likely, you are a mess of innumerable intends that sum up to something or cancel themself to nothing. Most likely, you are navigating through the river of filth with no power to break out.

It is possible that you already have tight intends. Meaning, you don't waste unnecessary energy, and you focus on your endeavors. Then, you are at an advantage.

If you ever took a project, a goal, or a hobby to pursue feverishly, you have experience of staking intends. Every day, intending the same thing will inevitably gather power behind that direction. Once your direction gathered enough strength, a battle is inevitable.

##The totality of your available energy

Olmecs teach us that human beings have a limited supply of energy. As you stack intends in a particular direction, that direction fights for priority in your life. And your energy behind intends that you have no attachment to are being discarded. Their energy is now redistributed. You are becoming more focused and more single-pointed.

Eventually, that goal will clash with other goals that you have. Most of them are goals that you stacked behind for your entire lifetime. Be a good boy/girl. Do this. Act like this. Be successful. Society learned intends fix your Assemblage Point in the Blue Station. In The First Attention. The map of the sorcerers leads our Assemblage Point to the end of the Orange Station. The Second Attention. And beyond.

Think of little kids and their toys. The

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Manuel DeLanda Edinburgh University Press (just released - I dont know if this is availiable as an electronic copy in any of the known platforms, unfortunately my university doesnt subscribe to any ebook platform) ISBN-10: 1474413633 ISBN-13: 978-1474413633

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.