[Dancecult-l] A geneology of "assemblage"?

[tobias c. van Veen]

Yes, a good example of such work too would be Steve Goodman's _Speed
Tribes_:

2004 'Speed Tribes: netwar, affective hacking and the audio-social' in F.
Leibl (ed.) Cultural Hacking, Taschen. 2006 'Audio Virology' in S. Goodman &
A. Greenspan (eds.) Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.

For those in the dubstep scene Steve Goodman is otherwise known as Kode9 who
runs Hyperdub, and from the '90s, ex-CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit)
member. Hence.. someone who lives the Deleuzean, err, mindset.

Another essential text would be Kodwo Eshun's _More Brilliant than the Sun_
which is perhaps the most eloquent and innovative incorporation of Deleuze
and the electronic in thinking technoculture.

A good journal to check out would be Fibreculture, which is host to much
Deleuze-work in the areas of network politics and culture:
    http://journal.fibreculture.org/

On another tangent, there's also Iain Borden's _Skateboarding, Space and the
City_ which makes casual though succinct use of Deleuze in thinking
architecture and skateboarder (subcultural) relations.

Good luck,

    tobias

ps. 'Dogging' was in part, it seems -- and this isn't proven -- something of
a media prank by the ex-KLF, which makes an intriguing tie between Cauty &
Drummond's forays into techno-pop culture, technology, and sex. Whether this
prank rode the back of an actual phenomenon, instigated it, or amplified it,
I'm not sure. Whatever the case it is yet another KLF myth...



> Delueze and Guattari discuss "assemblage" in "A Thousand Plateaus".
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>> I recently read a journal article in which an emergent sexual
>> practice/subculture ("dogging" -- see citation below) was conceptualized as
>> (roughly) an assemblage of bodies, technologies, spaces, and antecedent
>> sexual
>> practices and subcultures.
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>> Although my research is concerned with well-established, long-standing, and
>> global subcultures (graffiti artists and goths), the "assemblages"
>> conceptualization might solve some on-going problems with the way that youth
>> subcultures have been framed (in past and recent scholarship), while also
>> accounting for local variations. I write to ask:
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>> *What are the key readings for understanding the geneology of "assemblage" as
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>> way of framing cultural practices/communities?
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>> *Are you aware of any scholarship dealing with subcultures (youth or
>> otherwise)
>> that put this framework to use?
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>> Thanx for the always-insightful responses of the academic e-communities!
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>> love and kisses,
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>> joe austin, history, uw-milwaukee, usa
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>> David Bell, "Bodies, Technologies, Spaces: On 'Dogging'" _Sexualities_
>> (2006),
>> vol9(4): 387-407.
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