Assemblage, materiality, race, capital

Saldanha, Arun (2012) Assemblage, materiality, race, capital. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2 (2). pp. 194-197. ISSN 2043-8206

Abstract

The emphasis on assemblage in the social sciences and humanities of late naturally leads to the problem of race, or of how bodies assemble together into unequally positioned racial formations. This commentary argues broadly in line with Deleuze and Guattari that assemblage theory should investigate more than it has its relationship to other materialisms, especially Marxism, biology and feminism. Assemblage theory has enormous potential to overcome binaries such as nature/culture, but only if it understands what novelty it brings.